Nauelea.) RUBIACER, 65 
* Flowers without bractlets. 
or acuminate at the base, ona glabrous petiole 4-10 lin. long, 3-5 in. 
long, shorter or longer acuminate, entire, thin-coriaceous, glossy, 
glabrous ; flowers minute, sessile, on a hispid-tomentose receptacle, 
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glabrous, about 4 lin. long ; capsules obovate, about 24 lin. long, 
separating from the base into 2 valves, leaving a persistent linear 
dissepiment ; seeds linear, at both ends membranously acumi- 
nate. 
Has.—Pegu, at Myodwine.—Fl. Oct. 
N. sessilifolia, Roxb.—Hieing-kala—A leaf-shedding tree 
in. thick, blackish, transversely fissured and cracked; cut dry, 
rown; leaves obovate-oblong to oblong and elliptically oblong, 
almost sessile, or on a very short (hardly a line long) thick petiole, 
rounded or sometimes almost cordate at the base, 6-8 in. long, 
quite blunt or rounded at the apex, entire, thin-coriaceous, of a 
glaucous green, smooth, glossy above; flowers small, forming 
globular heads of nearly an inch in diameter, on a globular, grey- 
terminating into 5 angular-clavate, truncate, pubescent segments 
more than 2 | 
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