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1877.] Knoioledge of the Burmese Flora. 139 



1. P. TOMENTOSA, Bl. Bydr. 9G8 ; Miq. Fl. Tiid. Bat. II. 258, and 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 254. (P. harhulata, Miq. in Ann. Mus. L. B. 

 IV. 255 ; P. densijlora, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 259 ; P. foetida, Bth. Fl. 

 Hongk. 162?). 



Var. a. TOMENTOSA, all parts more or less shortly pubescent or almost 

 scurfy-pubescent. 



Var. (B. GLABRA, all parts glabrous or only sparingly and minutely 

 pubescent on the nerves. 



Hab. Arracan bills. — Fl. Fr. Octob. 



2. P. FCETiDA, L. Mant. 52 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. II. 517; WA. 

 Prod. I. 424 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 258. (P. ovata, Miq. in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. IV. 255). 



Var. /3, MiCEOCARPA, capsule compressed ovoid-orbicular, only about 

 3 lin. long. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in shrubbery, from Chittagong and Ava down 

 to Upper Tenasserim ; Var. /?. on Taong dong in Ava (Wall.) — Fr. Nov. 

 — Jan. 



3. P. CALYCiN^A, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873. 74. 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Tavoy (Wall. Cat. 6247. E).— Fr. Nov. 



4. P. LANUGINOSA, Wall. PI. As. rar. II. 52. t. 165 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 259. (P. macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 7292 ; Don Gen. Syst. IV. 561). 



Hab. Frequent in the mixed forests, especially along choungs, all 

 over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Tenasserim ; also freely 

 springing up in the upper toungyas. — Fl. Jan. — July ; Fr. Jan. — March. 



Lasianthus, Jack.. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Flowers in clusters or short peduncled cymes, the bracts very minute and usually 



deciduous. 



Flowers sessile ; calyx glabrous, the lobes about as long as the tube ; drupes crowded 

 by the linear-lanceolate calyx-teeth, L. lucidus. 



Flowers very shortly pedicelled or almost sessile ; calyx puberulous, the limb broad 

 with very short teeth ; drupes crowned with the cyathiform contracted almost 

 truncate calyx-limb, L. constrictus. 



* * Flowers in densely bracted sessile clusters, the bracts more or less conspicuous 



and often xoersistent. 

 X Calyx-segments about a line long or shorter. Stipules small. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, puberulous beneath ; outer bracts broad and blunt, but short ; 



calyx-lobes lanceolate, L. stercorarius. 



Sparingly stiflf-hairy ; leaves almost sessile, oblique ; bracts all linear-subulate, hu-- 



. sute, ■ « L. Wallichii, 



X X Calyx-segments linear to linear-subulate, 3 — 5 lin. long, hirsute. 

 + Stipules very large and leafy, oval. 



