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Inflorescence glabrous ; leaves alternate, long-petioled, sparingly and minutely hirsute 



above, B. Martabaniea. 



X X Prolific, with a solitary radical or a few alternate 

 leaves. Flowers small, white. 

 More or less stellate-velvety ; inflorescence glabrous ; leaves alternate or rarely solitary, 



. , B. sinuata* 

 Glabrous ; leaf solitary, from the base of which 2 or more flowering peduncles arise, 



. . B. prolifera. 

 Stems etc. and the conspicuously bracted inflorescence palcaceous-piloso, the indumen- 

 tum often intermixed with soft gland-hairs, B, paleacea. 



t t Leaves and inflorescence radical. 

 Leaves contracted into a petiole 2 — 3 lin. long, ciliate, hispid above ; flowers nearly an 



in. in diameter, white, B. nivea. 



+ + Perianth of both sexes 2-sepalled, apetalous. 

 Very tender herb ; leaves alternate, minutely and sparingly pilose above ; flowers 



small, B. Jlaceidissima. 



* * Styles 3, free or connate. Capsule ^-celled and Z-winged. 

 X Placentas entire and simple. 

 Glabrous, the inflorescence radical or nearly so ; leaves radical, deeply lobed ; perianth 



2-sepalled, apetalous, B. Brandisiana. 



X X Placentas 2-cleft. 



+ Caulescent herbs, with alternate cauline leaves. 

 All parts (also the inflorescence) glabrous ; capsule 3 lin. long, the wings truncate at 



the apex ; stamens monadelphous, B. parvuUflora. 



Leaves sparingly and minutely bristly and glossy above, in other respects very similar 

 to the preceding ; capsule \ in. long ; stamens free, the anthers mucronulate ; 



styles free, B. modestijlora. 



Like preceding, but leaves opaque and more pilose ; stamens monadelphous, the anthers 

 terminated by the broad truncate connective ; styles united up to the middle, 



. , B. scidata. 

 Leaves minutely and sparingly pilose ; inflorescence glandular-puberulous ; stamens 

 monadelphous ; capsule- wings half- sagittate, produced into blunt basal lobes, 



. , B. surcuUgera, 

 + -f- Scapigcrous herbs, the leaves and inflorescences radical and 

 usually solitary. 

 Leaves very long-petioled, peltate at the base, papillose-dotted and glabrous, 



. . B. suhperfoliata. 



Leaves very long-petioled, cordate (not peltate), papillose and minutely pilose above ; 



stamens fi-ee, B. velutina. 



1. B. EoxBUEGHii, DC. Prod. XV/1. 398 {Caspao^ya oUgocarpa, DC. 

 1. c. 276 ; B. Malaharica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 6^8 ; Casparea polycarpa, 

 DC. Prod. 1. c. 277). 



Has. Chittagong. 



2. B. LACINIATA, Eoxb. PL Ind. III. 649 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5021 ; DC. 

 Prod. XV/1. 347. 



Hab. Along rivulets of the damp hill-forests of the Martaban hills 

 east of Tounghoo, at 6 — 7000 ft. elevation. Pr. March. 



