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eovered with a short, soft, tomentose tomentum intermixed with 
long, brushy, tawny, ‘stiff hairs ; ; bark whitish, about 2 lin. thick, 
rather smooth, longitudinally marked with little corky lenticels ; 
eut pale colour ed, dry ; stipules very large, densely tawny or rusty 
hirsute, deciduous ; 3; leaves cordate or broadly rotundate-cordate, 
on a long tomentose and tawny setose petiole, about }-1 ft. long 
and broad, shortly acuminate, entire, densely and softly tawny 
tomentose on both sides ; flowers large, yellow, with a dark-purple 
eye, soon turning reddish or purplish in falling off, on short 
tomentose and setose pedicels, forming poor racemes on rather long 
ary peduncles ; involucre divided to near the base in about 
10 stiff, erect, tawny hirsute lobes somewhat shorter than the 
lanceolate hirsute calyx-lobes ; capsules ovoid, a little shorter than 
the calyx, obtuse, with a mucro, densely tawny setose ; lin 
with dense tawny long hairs. 
uent in sea tropical forests all over Burma from Tee and 
Martaban Paoees to Tenas i FL Fr. R. S.—s.—S$8.= Metam ti 
Remarxs.— Wood site heavy, coche %e dies -grained, Cae white te, turn™ 
ing pale brown at exposure. Liber a strong fibre for cordage. Might be used for 
house-posts and for other in-door “Sasi Po purposes. 
8. H. scandens, Roxb. ; H.f. ae Fl. 1, 337.—A lofty, woody, 
‘ seandent shrub, oe stems as thick as an arm, all softer parts 
velvety-tomentose ; bark rather thick. slightly rimose, smooth ; 
cut brown; leaves cordate or broadly cordate, shortly and blung 
ish 3-5 5-lobed, on rather long shortly tomentose petioles, very 
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Di pivavey Mommies | from stellate hairs ; flowers middling- 
sized, yellowish, with purple tips, orang purple outside, with 
or without a purple eye, on about 1-13 in. long tawny tomentose 
peduncles jointed below the ee and pian in short axilla: 
racemes, usually forming larger or smaller terminal panicles 
involucre almost coriaceous, greyish-velvety, deeply 4-7 (usually 6) 
cleft, the lobes broadly lanceolate, acute, shorter than the oblong- 
lanceolate velvety 3-nerved calyx- -lobes Senin ovate-oblong, 
longer than the calyx, rather obtuse, with a mucro, densely stellate- 
— ; seeds covered with long, soft, white cotton. - 
ses ong ora ee forests of Martaban.—Fl. Fr. March- 
—s: 1 8B etam. “ . Are 
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Bracteoles 5-8 or fewer, rarely wanting, deci Calyx 
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