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all softer parts more or less greyish or tawny-pubescent ; leaves 
cordate-ovate to ovate, on a slender grey-pubescent petiole up to 
an inch long, entire, thick-membranous, softly and almost velvety 
pubescent (especially beneath) ; flowers small, white, on thickly 
pubescent 13-2 lin. long pedicels, fascicled and forming axillary 
and terminal grey-pubescent panicles; sepals densely greyish or 
whitish pubescent, liear-lanceolate, acute, about 4 a line long; 
blunt with a mucro, about 3-1 in. long, chartaceous, puberulous, 
I-nerved and laxly net-veined; capsules globose, the size of a 
small pea, with a thin-chartaceous, sparingly hairy pericarp; seed 
solitary, globose, black, smooth. 
Has.—aAva, apparently frequent.—Fl. C.S.; Fr. H.S.—1. 
3. P. spectabilis, Kz.—An extensively twining evergreen 
shrub, all softer parts yellowish pubescent; leaves ovate, or rarely 
at the base shallowly sinuate-cordate, up to 2-4 in. long, on a 
densely pubescent petiole 4-1 in. long, acute or bluntish with a 
mucro, entire, thick-membranous, densely pubescent, especially 
beneath ; flowers rather large, white, on densely pubescent 2-3 lin. 
long pedicels, forming tomentose lax racemes terminating the axil- 
lary rather short branchlets ; sepals linear, about 2 lin. long, thickly 
pubescent ; corolla funnel-bell-shaped, nearly an inch long, the out- 
side, especially of the tube, puberulous, the limb 5-angular, 3-1 in. 
across ; filaments glabrous, short and included, inserted at the con- 
striction of the tube; style very long, with a capitate stigma ; only 
three of the sepals equally enlarged (the 2 others entirely sup- 
pressed), up to 14 in. long, obversely linear-oblong, blunt, charta- 
_ €eous, puberulous, at the base 5- further up 3-nerved, trans- 
versely veined ; capsule (unripe) almost globose, the size of a pea, © 
stylose-acuminate, appressed-hairy and glabrescent. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban.—Fl. March- 
Apr.; Fr. Apr.-May.—s : 1—SS.—Metam. 
NEUROPELTIS, Wall. 
_ Sepals 5, persistent, imbricate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5-parted, 
the lobes entire, folded in bud. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 or 2 erect 
near the middle of the very much enlarged, chartaceous, nerved 
floral bractlet, 1-seeded by abortion.—Scandent shrubs, with entire 
