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long, membranous, on both sides, but especially along the nerves 
beneath, sprinkled with very minute hairs; flowers sessile, at first 
forming densely bracted, sessile, solitary spikes in the axils of the 
leaves or at the end of the branchlets, but the spikes soon elongat- 
in 2-4 inches and becoming very loose, interrupted and shortly 
peduncled ; lower bracts, or rather reduced floral leaves, somewhat 
leafy, very deciduous, about 3 in. long or longer, sparingly ciliate 
or naked, entire, acuminate, minutely appressed-hispid, the true 
bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, as long or shorter than the calyx, 
entire and very acuminate, minutely appressed-hispid ; bractlets 2, 
as long as the bracts, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at 
base, minutely appressed-hispid ; calyx-segments 3-1 in. long, con- 
form to the bractlets, but ciliate from stiff brownish hairs; corolla . 
about an inch long, purple, glabrous; filaments and style densely 
tawny-villous, the former far decurrent along the tube; capsules 
linear-club-shaped, solid at the narrowed sterile part, about an 
<a long, glabrous and striate, 4-seeded ; seeds large, grey, silk- 
iry. 
Has.—Rare in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah; 
Tenasserim.—Fr. Feb.—s.—SS8.=Si am. 
few serratures towards the apex, very acuminate, glandular-pilose ; 
bractlets 2, as long as the calyx, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
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3 capsules linear-club-shaped, solid at the narrowed sterile 
part, somewhat longer than the calyx, sparingly hairy at the apex, 
mel seeds large, grey, silk-hairy. 
, 4B.—Along streamlets in the tropical forests of Martaban, east of 
Tounghoo.—Fr. March.-s.-S8.—Metam. 
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