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Hat3. Ava. Segain. (Wall). 



2. P. ZETLANICA, WiUd. sp. pi. III. 838 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 214 ; 

 Hf. IiKl. Fl. I. 331. 



Hab. Banks of the Irrawaddi in Ava, apparently not unfrequent. — 

 Fl. Fr. Sept.— Jan. 



All the Burmese specimens seen by me (including P. rosea, Wall, Cat. 

 18S7, with hairy carpels) belong to the above species, none to P. odorata, 

 Willd., for which Masters gives Birma as a habitat. 



Kydia, Roxb. 



1. K. caltcina, Eoxb. Corom. PL III. t. 215 and Fl. Ind. III. 

 188 ; Wight Ic. t. 879-880 : Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 3. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 348. 

 {X.fraterna, Eoxb. Corom. PL III. t. 216 and Fl. Ind. III. 189). 



Hab. Not uncommon in the mixed and open forests of Pegu and 

 Prome ; also Ava. Fl. Jan. ; Fr. H. S. 



There really may be two different species in India, the one with smaller 

 smooth seeds, the other with larger furrowed seeds. The indument of the 

 Burmese plants is much more floccose, the involucre-leaflets broader ; seeds, 

 unripe, appear smooth and smaller. 



Decaschistia, WA. 



Conspectus of species. 



Leaves beneath shortly but densely whitish tomentose ; involucre much shorter than 



tlie calyx, puberulous ; petals about i in. long, ... ...D. parvifiora. 



All parts thickly tomentose ; involucre nearly as long as the calyx, densely tomentose ; 



petals nearly 2 in. long, ... ... ... ...D. crassiuscula. 



D. PAEVIFLOEA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870. 66. 



Hab. Found in the adjoining Siamese province of Kanburi, most pro- 

 bably occurring also in Tenasserim. Fl. Fr. Apr. May. 



1. D. CRASSIUSCULA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873. 227. 



Hab. Prome District (Col. Eyre). 



Masters describes but does not name another large-flowered (flowers 

 pink, 4 in. in diameter) species from Bangoon. 



Hibiscus, Ii. 



Conspectus of species. 



A. Leaflets of involucre free, sometimes adnate to the calyx hut not connate ivitli one 



another, or altogether wanting, 

 Suhg. 1. Solandra. Involucre wanting. Herbs with small flowers. 



Flowers white, on long slender pedicels, usually forming terminal racemes, ...^. Solandra. 

 Subg. 2. Sibiscus. Calyx regular, not spathaccous, 5-cleft, more or less persistent, 

 surrounded by a more or less persistent involucre, the leaflets of which are either quite 

 free or sometimes adnate to the calyx. 



* Capsule rounded, obtuse or truncate. 

 O Capsules truncate, winged. 



