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broadly fringed. Leaves alternate, serrate, acuminating to both ends, 

 flowers axillary, and terminal. Larayen. 



482. ? An ornamental tree with shining leaves ; in appearance it 

 resembles Carallia lucida, Roxb., but I see no serratures on the leaves. 

 Kansing. 



483. Gordonia integrifolia, Roxb. NagabL Kansing. 



484. ? A very ornamental climbing plant, with opposite acuminate 

 smooth leaves, and numerous white flowers. Namsang. 



485. ? A most powerful climber, rnnning over the tops of the 

 highest trees. Leaves crowded near the ends of the branches, pe- 

 tioled, smooth, shining on both sides, cuneate, mucronate, 12 inches 

 long by 5 broad, very distinctly though minutely dotted, peduncles ter- 

 minal, all the parts of the flower more or less villous. Calyx 6-partite, 

 corolla none, stamens 9, style 1, disk glandular. Larayen. 



486. ? Rom. Acanthaceae. A small shrub cultivated by the Nagas 

 for a good blue dye which it produces. The greater part of the cloth- 

 ing which we saw in use by men, women and children, had been dyed 

 by this plant, and the colour appeared to stand very well. Leaves op- 

 posite, short petioled, or sessile, often unequally paired, elliptic, asumi- 

 nate, remotely serrate, veins prominent, parallel. Flowers axillary and 

 terminal, lilac coloured, showy, calyx closely embraced by 2 small 

 ligulate bractes, 5-partite fully to the base. Corolla unequally 5- 

 partite. Stamens 4 didynamous, with the rudiment of a sterile fila- 

 ment ; style one, stigma incurved, fringed, germ sprinkled with short, 

 glandular hairs, seeds hooked. Larayen. 



387. ? Arboreous, bark rust-coloured. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 oblong, serrated, nearly smooth above, with a few scales on the mid- 

 rib and veins, densely clothed with ferruginous down underneath, veins 

 parallel and sprinkled with woolly scales. Peduncles axillary, many 

 flowered, flowers rose-coloured. Sepals 5, petals 5, stamens numerous, 

 closely surrounding the germ ; germ 5-celled, style 5-cleft. The style 

 is sometimes 6-cleft, and the germ 6-celled. Kangsing 



488. ? An ornamental plant, probably a jasmine. Leaves oppo- 

 site, very thin, rounded at the base, tapering to a fine point. Kangsing. 



489. Olax imbricata, Roxb. Kangsing. 



490. ? An ornamental shrub, every part covered with soft pubes- 

 cence, leaves alternate, short petioled, oblong, finely serrated. Sohohai. 



