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Sprc. Cuar. Shrub, 2-4-feet: leaves lanceolate or linear-ob- 
Jong, abruptly and obtusely acuminated, quite glabrous: peduncles 
supra-axillary, shorter than the petiole ; outer petals oblong, long- 
acuminated, obscurely keeled within and marked ‘with an oblong 
tomentose scar at,the base, inner ones combined into an elongated 
mitre, pubescent outside and densely silky within: disk truncated ; 
ovaries linear, densely clothed with golden strigz, furrowed within : 
style cylindrical, recurved: carpels 8-10, or less:by abortion, oval, 
mucronate at the apex, minutely granulated. : 
Khasia mountains, flowering in April and May. 
(5) G. Sivonsu. (H. F. & T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 108. 
Srec. Cuan. Small erect tree: young branchlets rusty-tomen- 
tose : leaves Jingar-oblong or narrow obovate-oblong, paler beneath 
and with the petiole and nerves rusty-tomentose: peduncles axil- 
Jary, shorter than the petiole, furnished with oblong bracteoles at 
the base: sepals pubescent: outer petals oblong-lanceolate, densely 
pubescent, inner ones combined into a tall densely tomentose mitre : 
disk of the fruit dilated, depresso-globose. ° zs 
Khasia mountains, flowering in’ June. 
GENUS VII. SACCOPETALUM. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
_ Deriv. From Saccus, a bag, and Petalon, a petal. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 3, small: petals 6, outer ones nearly agrees 
ing with the sepals, inner ones much larger, velvety, cohering by the 
margins, afterwards free, saccate at the base: disk somewhat glo- 
bose: stamens in many rows: anthers subsessile, dorsal, 2-celled, 
apiculated with a connectivum : ovaries oval-oblong: ovules 6 or 
more in two rows. 
(1) S. ronetrtorum. (H. F.§ T.) 
' Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 151. 
‘Spec. Car. Tree: branchlets wrinkled, young parts pubes- 
cent : leaves oval-oblong, acuminated, glabrous above, puberulous 
beneath: sepals oblong: inner petals oblong-lanceolate; obtuse, pu-~ 
berulous, somewhat saccate at the base: disk densely covered with 
white villi: ovaries numerous, strigose: ovules about 10: styles 
nearly twice as long as the ovary, exuding gum: carpels inserted on 
the globose disk, subglobose, slightly granular, dark-brown: flowers 
solitary in the axils of the fallen leaves. 
At Purneah in Upper Bengal, 
