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Grxc. Cuan. [Leaves opposite, from lanceolate to ovate-cordate, 
‘obliquely attenuated from the middle to the apex: racemes axillary, 
‘solitary, or paired, straight, often as tong as the leaves: bract oval, 
solitary: petals 5, swollen and triangular at their base, tongue- 
‘shaped, recurved: stamens 5: anthers obovate: style 4-sided, aps 
parently jointed near the middle: berries oblong: flowers very na~ 
merous, short-pedicelled, smail, red. ‘ 
Forests of Silhet, flowering in June. 
(22) L. triconus. (W. & 4.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 386. 
Spec. Car. Branches acutely triangular: leaves somewhat 
- verticillate in threes, oval, obtuse or slightly cuneate at the base, 
coriaceous: petiole thick: peduncles lateral, very short, bearing a 
short almost umbel-shaped raceme of a few. approximated. pedicel- 
led spreading flowers: bract solitary under the fruit, unilateral, 
ovate: limb of the calyx irregularly and bluntly toothed: berry ob- 
ovoid. : 
Peninsula. . 
(28) lL. sirtonus. (Desr: )} 
Ident. Desr. in Lam. Enc. Meth, III. p. 600.—W. & A. prod. 
-I. p. 886.—Dec. prod. TV. p. 302. 
Srec. Cuar. - Leaves ovate-roundish, thickish + branches terete: 
petioles channelled: peduncles solitary or in pairs, axillary a little 
shorter than the petioles, bearing two flowers on pedicels about the 
length of the peduncle: bract solitary under the ovary and girding 
its base, lateral, ovate, short: limb of the calyx truncated: flower- 
bud slender, much curved, slightly clavate at the apex, covered’ with 
thin rusty pubescence. : 
Peninsula. 
(24) L. rursinatus. (Dec. ) 
Ident, W.& A. prod, I. p. 386.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 805. 
Sprec. Cuar. Branches-terete: leaves somewhat alternate, oval 
or oblong, obtuse or slightly acute, thick: peduncles axillary, much 
shorter than the leaf, 2—-3-cleft: bract ovate, solitary under the tur- 
binate ovary : limb. of the calyx unequally and obtusely 5-cleft. 
Neilgherries. 
(25) L. rveuosus. ( Roth.) 
Ident. Roth, Nov. Sp, p. 194.—Dec. prod. IV. p. $17.—W, 
& A. prod, I. p. 386. 
Spec. Cuar. Branches terete, ultimate ones compressed : leaves 
‘opposite or alternate, very shortly petioled, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 
‘glaucous, rugosely reticulated, with a smooth cartilaginous margins 
