Spec. Chae. Leaves scattered, very short-petioled, lanceolate, 

 and oblong, prominently reticulated beneath, quite glabrous, in- 

 volucral ones nearly equalling the short peduncled capitule, 

 oblong, hoary, exterior ones slightly glabrous : calyx hoary, lobes 

 ovate, obtuse, exceeding by half the 5 linear 2-cleft scales. 



Mountains of India. Poonah, in the Deccan. 



(4) L. METZiAjfus. {Mi^.) 



Idenf. Miquel Anal. Bot. II. p. 3. t. 1.— Dec. 1. c. p. 598. 



Syn. Grnidia monticola, Miq. in ScJied. pi. Metz. Mora p. 557. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves scattered, sessile, coriaceous, lanceolate, 

 attenuated at both ends, acute, veined, and with the branchlets 

 glabrous, involucral ones smaller, shorter than the subsessile capi- 

 tule, oval-lanceolate, acute, hoary, outer ones slightly glabrous : 

 calyx hirsute, a little svrollen below the middle, long-bearded: 

 lobes oblong-obtuse : scalelets 5, short, linear, entire : capitules 

 globose, dense-flowered. 



"Western Ghauts. Canara. South Mahratta country. 



GENtrS IV. WIKSTEGEMIA. 



Octandria nionogynia. Seae : Syst .- 



Gen. Chae. Mowers tetramerous : calyx coloured, deciduous, 

 tube cylindric or funnel-shaped, limb 4-cleft, equal, throat naked : 

 perigynous scales none, hypogynous ones 4, very small, linear, 

 free or connate below : anthers 8, in two rows at the top of the 

 tube, subsessile, enclosed: ovary 1-celled, ovule pendulous: style 

 terminal : stigma capitate : berry drupaceous, sometimes dry : 

 seed inverse. — Trees or shrubs : leaves opposite, veined, de- 

 ciduous : peduncles terminal and axillary, simple or rarely corym- 

 bosely branched, many-flowered at the top : flowers sessile or 

 very shortly pedicelled, subcapitate or afterwards spiked or race- 

 mose from an excrescent axis. 



(1) W. CAmESCENS. {Meism.') 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIV. p. 547. 



Syn. Daphne canescens. Wall. — D. serieea, Don. prod. flor. 

 Nep.p. 69 (not Vahl). 



Spec. Chae. Shrub branches twiggy, tomentose at the top : 

 leaves scattered, herbaceous, short-petioled, lanceolate or oblong, 

 acute, hoary-pubescent : peduncles terminal and in the uppermost 

 axils thin, undivided : spikes few-flowered, capituliform : calyx 

 slender, hoary-tomentose, lobes much shorter than the tube : 

 ovary pubescent. 



Khasia. Assam. 



