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or . less softly rugose (according to Roxburgh ex Hook. f. 

 I.e. with stiff hooked hairs), lower side pale; 47^ cM. 

 long. 0.6 cM. wide; petioles 2V2 cM.; spikes 15— 30cM. 

 long; calyx more or less globose in fruit, shortly contort 

 at apex, greyish pubescent, with hooked hairs; 0.6 cM. long; 

 0.2 cM, broad before or during flowering-time, 0.6 cM. 

 in fruit; corolla white, 0.8 cM.; capsule obcordiform, with 

 narrowed base, quadrangular; the ribs obtuse, softly 

 aculeate; rugose for the rest, commissures excavated. 



Distribution: Deccan Peninsula, Africa. 



Though we did not find any indication in the bibliography 

 about (he occurring of the species in Malaya, it may occur in 

 this regions. As Blaauw did not mention the species he saw in 

 Java (see under P. echinata), it is possible it occurs there. 



Subtribe D. Petr.C^. 



VI. PETRJEA Jacq., Select. Am., 180, t. 114, (1763) — 

 Petreea B. fuss, ex Juss. Gen. 108 (1789) [not Petrea, 

 a name given by Linnaeus, Gen. pi. ed. I, 347 (1737)] 

 Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. II, 2, 1149; Schauer, DC. 

 Prodr. XI, 616; Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pfl. fam. IV. 3a, 

 158. — Shrubs or Httle trees; leaves simple, opposite, 

 coriaceous; inflorescences paniculate, axillary, lax, elon- 

 gated; flowers in the axils of caducous bracts, large; 

 calyx with short tube, 5— 15-ribbed, limb with 5 mem- 

 branous, broad-linear, obtuse lobes, alternating with 5 

 deltoid inner teeth, the lobes enlarged in fruit; corolla 

 with straight nearly cylindrical tube, limb spreading, 

 subequally 5-lobed, or somewhat obliquely 2-lipped; throat 

 villous; stamens 4, subequal, filaments short, inserted in 

 the upper part of the corolla-tube, sometimes a rudiment 

 of a fifth stamen present; style rather short, with increased 

 and obhque apex; ovary on a solid disc, ± imperfectly 

 2-celled, 2-ovuled; fruit included in the enlarged calyx- 



