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eapsules about 1-14 in. long, long-stalked, consisting of 5 linear 
many-seeded minutely stellate-tomentose carpels spirally twis 
and terminating in a thick point. ' 
Has.—Burma (probably Ava ?) ; 
2. H. viscida, Bl1—A shrub, all parts covered with a lax, short, 
viscid tomentum; leaves cordate-oblong or cordate-rotundate, 
almost 3-lobed towards the extremity, on a short villous petiole, 
acuminate, irregularly serrate-toothed, membranous, above sprinkled 
with short soft hairs, beneath softly viscid-pubescent or loosely 
viscid-tomentose ; flowers rather large, on short pedicels, forming 
soft prickles, the carpels straight, firmly united, and termimating in 
| a short blunt point. 
- Has.—Ava. 
them ; calyx about 6 lin. long, terete, shortly stellate-tomentose; 
petals nearly twice as long, on long, slender, abruptly toothed 
capsules about 1-14 in. long, on a long glab- 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl. March. 
_ 4. Hi lanata. (Oudemansia lanata, T. & B.).—An evergreen 
middling-sized shrub, all parts stellate-tomentose; leaves ovate, 
rounded or rarely almost cordate at the base, on a stout woolly 
petiole only 2-8 lin. long, acuminate, obsoletely repand, membra- 
nous, 5- or almost 7-nerved from the base, 3-5 in. long, above 
_ fugaceously lanate, beneath whitish and stellately woolly tomentose ; 
flowers small, dark-purple, on very short thick pedicels forming by 
3-6 small woolly tomentose poor cymes on axillary peduncles not 
_ above } in. long ; calyx tubular, 5-cornered, about 4-43 lin. long, 
