334 THYMELEACER. [Linostoma, 
Glabrous shrubs. Perianth-scales 10, free. 
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Leaves obovate, blunt, or rounded with a ° L. paucifiorum. 
Z : LL, decandrum. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate . , P 
‘omentose shrubs. Perianth-scales 5, 2-cleft. 
Floral leaves coriaceous ; petioles inserted with a broad base to a 
nob on the peduncle and reflexed . A ss : . LD. scandens. 
Floral leaves thin, chartaceous ; the petioles thin and not thic 
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at their insertion to the peduncle . : . L. Siamense. 
1. L. pauciflorum, Griff—An evergreen, erect shrub, 4-6 ft. 
high, with spreading slender branches, all parts quite glabrous; 
leaves small, 1-1} in. long, from obovate to obovate-oblong, on a 
very short slender petiole, rather acute at the base, rounded or 
almost retuse with a mucro, chartaceous, entire, glabrous, some-— 
what glaucous and elegantly parallel-nerved beneath, the margins 
reflexed so as to appear thickened ; flowers by 2 (or more?), on @ 
slender, filiform, glabrous peduncle, bearing below its middle 2 alter- 
nate, white, oblong, thin-chartaceous, net-veined, glabrous floral 
leaves; perianth slender, glabrous; nut oval, the size of a pea, 
appressed hairy, enclosed in the brown, very thin, fragile perianth 
and crowned with its limb. - 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests, especially the pine forests, of # 
ee of Tounghoo, at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation. —Fr. March.— 
2. L, decandrum, Wall.—An evergreen shrub with numerous 
dichotomous elegant branches, all parts quite glabrous; leaves 
ovate- to oblong-lanceolate, on a 2 lin. long petiole, long-acu- 
minate, 2-3 in. long or somewhat longer, chartaceous, glabrous, 
glossy above, elegantly parallel-nerved, bordered with a nerve-like 
thickening along the entire margins; flowers greenish white, fra- 
grant, on long, slender, glabrous, jointed pedicels, by 3-6 in asmall 
umbel, on a slender glabrous peduncle bearing below its middle 2 
white, thin-chartaceous, laxly-veined, ovate-oblong, glabrous floral 
leaves, the umbellets often forming a brachiate panicle at the end 
of the branchlets ; perianth glabrous outside, 4 to nearly 5 lin. long, 
the lobes linear, very long; perianth-scales 10, club-shaped ; nut 
spheroid-obovate, the size of a large pea, appressed pilose, carrying 
at its side the remains of the thin perianth. 
Has.—Chittagong ; Tenasserim. 
8. L. scandens, Kz.—A leaf-shedding (?), meagre shrub, with 
alternately distichous branches ; leaves grate ran on a 23 ye 
with transverse veination ; flowers on very short tomentose pediet 
forming densely tawny-tomentose few-flowered umbellets at the 
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