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Var. b. EI GESCEWS.— Leaves stiffly coriaceous, attenuate or 

 acute at the base, elliptic or oblong or lanceolate, tri- or tripli- 

 served, few ribbed, veinless, beneath glaucous or at last of the 

 name colour. 



Neilgherries. 



Var. 0. EtTBEiNEBViA. — Lcaves coriaceous, shortly acute at the 

 base, ovate or eUiptic-oblong, acuminate, somewhat 3-nerved, ob- 

 soletely ribbed, minutely reticulated on both sides, at last vein- 

 less, beneath paler, scarcely glaucescent. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) L. LAifUGiNOSA. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 221.— Nees Syst. p. 634. 



iSyn. Tetranthera lanuginosa, JFaZZ.— Tetradenia lanuginosa. 

 — J^ees in Wall. pi. As. rar. II. p. 64. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: leaves interruptedly subverticiUate and 

 scattered, elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, attenuated or acuminated 

 at both ends, triplinerved, glabrous and shining above, beneath 

 glaucine, and with the petiole and branchlets afterwards glabrate : 

 flowers densely glomerate, tawny-villous, silky. 



Khasia. 



(3) L. roiiosA. {Nees.) 



Var. PtTNCXrCTJLATA. 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 222. 



Syn. Tetradenia foliosa, Nees in Wall. I. c. p. 64. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves scattered or the upper ones 

 nearly opposite, long-petioled, coriaceous, acute at the base, oval 

 or oblong, obtusely acuminate, triplinerved, above or on both 

 sides, distinctly dotted or at last smooth, beneath moderately 

 glaucous : flower-bearing buds subsessile or aggregate, sparingly 

 silky-puberulous or glabr&us. 



Silhet. 



Var. a. impunctata. — Leaves very smooth, beneath mode- 

 rately glaucous, dots none or beneath here and there scarcely 

 conspicuous. 



Khasia. 



Va/r. h. CiESiA. — Leaves dotted or smooth, beneath grey or 

 whitish-glaucous : branchlets at the apex sparingly and minutely 

 tomentose. — L. furfuracea, Nees Syst. — Tetradenia furfuracea, 

 Nees ap Wall. 1. e. p. 64. 



Chittagong. Canara. 



