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5. W. bispinosa (Stylocoryne bispinosa, Griff.).—An evergreen 
large scandent shrub, armed with short, opposite, recuryed, sharp 
spines, all parts glabrous; stipules 3-angular, deciduous; leaves 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the base, 
on a 3-5 lin. long petiole, 3-4 in. long, longer or shorter acuminate, 
entire, thin-coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers rather conspicuous, white, 
on about a line long appressed tawny or yellowish pubescent pedi- 
cels, arising solitary or by 2-3 from the cymbiform-connate bract- 
lets and forming a short more or less densely and shortly appressed- 
pubescent cyme at the end of the branchlets or spuriously axillary 
or in the forks of the branchings; calyx more than 2 lin. long, ap- 
pressed yellowish pubescent, tapering into the pedicel, the limb 
tubular bell-shaped, the teeth short, 3-angular, acute ; corolla glab- 
rous, the tube about 3 lin. long, slender, pubescent inside, the lobes 
obovate-oblong, nearly as long as the tube ; stigmatic lobes elongate. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah and Martaban d i r.-May.—-s : 1. 
6. W. fasciculata ( Posogueria fasciculata, Roxb.).—A large 
straggling shrub, armed with opposite, straight, sharp spines, the 
younger shoots and often also the branchlets shortly pubescent ; 
stipules from a broad base subulate-acuminate, deciduous ; leaves more 
or less ovate to ovate-lanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly acumi- 
nate, rounded at the base, on a 1-2 lin. long, slender, puberu- 
lous petiole, 1-2 in. long, entire, firmly membranous, glabrous or 
shortly pubescent, on the midrib beneath ; flowers rather large, 
white, arising from between 2 connate bractlets and by 3 or more 
fascicled or also solitary and almost sessile in the axils of the leaves ; 
calyx 3 lin. long, pubescent, the lobes subulate-acuminate ; corolla- 
tube about ? in. long, the lobes somewhat less than half as long; 
berries globular, glabrous, the size of a pea, crowned by the circular 
base of the fallen calyx-limb. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
arising soli from the axils of the leaves; calyx puberulous, 
about 2 lin. long, the lobes short; corolla-tube ~ in. long, rather 
Has.—Frequent “H the swamp forests of Pegu; Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. 
All, 
May.—s.x1.—SS 
VOL, Ik. D 
Mo. Bot. Garden, 
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