1876.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. 307 



? Var. y. abnormalis, stems covered with spreading tawny hairs ; 

 leaves of var. a. ; calyx shortly and densely greyish or whitish tomentose 

 without any admixture of longer hairs, the lobes acute or almost blunt. 



Hab. Var. a., often passing into /3., frequent on the Martaban Hills, 

 as well in the drier hill-forests as in hill-toungyas and deserted cultivated 

 lands, from 2500 to 7000 feet elevation ; var. y. Burma probably Ava 

 (Griff. 2147).— EL Febr. March. 



3. E. ferox, Wall. Cat. 724 ; Focke in Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Bremen 

 IY. 196. (B. Moluocanus, Boxb. PI. Ind. II. 518 et ejusd. Icon. MS. IX. 

 t. 32. f. 1853). 



Hab. Burma, probably Ava (Griff. 2145). 



4. R. pentagons, Wall. Cat. 731 ; Focke in Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. 

 IV. 192). 



Hab. Not uncommon in the damp hill-forests along hill-streams, on 

 the Nattoung mountain, east of Tounghoo, at 6000 — 7000 feet eleva- 

 tion.— Fl. March. 



I formerly combined B. alpestris and this species, but Mr. O. Kuntze 

 of Leipzic, who revised the species of Bubus in HBC, has pointed out to 

 me the differences between the two. 



5. B. lasiocabpus, Sm. in Bees. Cycl. XXX. ; DC. Prod. II. 558 ; 

 WA. Prod. I. 699 ; Wight Icon. t. 232. (B. albescens and B. racemosus, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. II. 519 ; B. Mysorensis, Heyne in Both Nov. sp. 235 ; DC. 

 1. c. 557 ; B. Horsfieldii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1/1. 375. t. 7). 



Hab. Ava, bills east of Bhamo (J. Anderson) ; Karenee country 

 (O'Biley). 



6. B. flatus, Ham. ap. Don. Prod. Nep. 234 ; DC. Prod. II. 559. 

 — (B. GowreepJiul, Boxb. Fl. Ind. II. 517 ; WA. Prod. I. 298 ; Wight 

 Icon. t. 231). 



Hab. Hills of Ava, Taong dong (Wall.) ; Kakhyen Hills (J. Ander- 

 son) ; Martaban Hills, east of Tounghoo (Bev. F. Mason). — Fl. Febr. 

 March. 



7. B. ros^folitts, Sm. Icon, in ed. III. 60. t. 60 ; DC. Prod. II. 

 556 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1/1. 375 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1783 c. fl. plen. ; Hook. 

 Icon. PI. t. 349 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 158 ; Bth. Fl. Austr. II. 431. (B. 

 TQsaeflorus, Boxb. Fl. Ind. II. 519). 



Var. a. asper {B. asper, Don. Prod. Nep. 234) , stem, branches, and 

 petioles more prickly and covered with long stiff blackish gland-hairs ; 

 calyx and peduncle tomentose-pubescent, with long spreading gland-bristles ; 

 leaves more or less appressed hairy ; flowers usually in poor corymbs. 



Var. /3. glabbitjsculus, stems, branches, and petioles glabrous or 

 with few short gland-hairs only ; peduncles and pedicels usually shortly 

 glandular-pubescent, rarely almost glabrous ; calyx glabrous or sprinkled 



