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the apex, and tapering at the base ; often hirsute on both 

 sides, but generally on the costa and veins. Veins promi- 

 nent, pinnate, running in curved lines towards the margin, the 

 last pair forming, with the costa, a 3-nerved termination of the 

 leaf; veinlets conspicuous, passing in nearly straight lines 

 between the costa and veins, giving a peculiar and unique 

 character to the venation. Bracteas often large and numerous, 

 copiously clothed with long matted hair, forming a thick in- 

 volucrum round the axillary sessile fascicles of flowers. Flow- 

 ers always small in all the genuine species I have seen. 

 Calyx limb sometimes much produced, and parted to the base 

 into subulate or lanceolate teeth; sometimes short and ob- 

 tusely lobed, rarely truncated, and furnished with short al- 

 most inconspicuous teeth. Corolla small, tubular, lobes of 

 the limb spreading, and, with the throat, generally hairy. 

 Drupe usually succulent, generally blue when ripe. 



The hairs on all parts of the plant especially where long 

 and shaggy are jointed, in some species almost approaching 

 to moniliform. The leaves are said by Blume to exhale a 

 disagreeable odour. I have only observed this in one species, 

 L. fcetens, which however seems scarcely to belong to the 

 genus, but which I have added at the end on the strength of 

 that character, and its having blue fruit. 



Analytical distribution of the Species. 



§ I. Leaves penninerved : veinlets connecting the primary 

 veins, passing transversely in nearly straight lines between 

 them. True Lasianthi. 



1 . Calyx limb more or less deeply parted ; lacineae elon- 

 gated, subulate or lanceolate, as long as the tube of 

 the corolla. 



A. Flowers cymosely aggregated, subsessile, furnish- 

 ed with an involucrum of bracteas equalling or ex- 

 ceeding the flowers. Bracteosb. 



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