502 Notes on Indian Botany. 



yellow hairs : bracts numerous, exterior pair foliaceous, ovate 

 cordate acuminate, those within smaller ; the innermost 

 linear subulate ; all very hairy : flowers axillary, sessile, free : 

 calyx about 5-parted, lacinese slender subulate : corolla — : 

 ovary 5- celled. 



Hab. — Malacca, Griffith. 



Obs. — Leaves about 8 inches long, under two inches broad, 

 ending in a slender tapering acumen. The most characteristic 

 feature of this species is the bractese, which are large and nu- 

 merous, completely concealing the few flowers, 3 or 4 of which 

 nestle in the centre. 



2. Lasianthus Jackianus, (R. W.) shrubby : every 

 where clothed with long yellowish hairs, springing from en- 

 larged (glandular?) bases: branches terete; intern odes short: 

 stipules triangular, short, broad at the base, glabrous within : 

 leaves subsessile ovate lanceolate, shortly and abruptly acu- 

 minate : flowers axillary subsessile, aggregated, few, (3 or 

 4) supported by two foliaceous lanceolate bracteas : calyx 

 deeply 4-cleft, divisions ovate lanceolate, hairy on both sides ; 

 corolla about the length of the calyx, glabrous within, lobes 

 filiate : ovary 3-4-celled : drupes small. 



Hab. — Neilgheries, flowering February and March. 



Obs. — Leaves from 4 to 5 inches long by about 1J broad : 

 hairs long yellowish coarse jointed. The bracteas vary 

 from J to 1J inch in length, exactly lanceolate, and by their 

 size and form at once distinguish this from all the described 

 species. Being quite sessile and axillary, they at first sight 

 convey the idea of 3-foliate leaves with small pinnae. It ap- 

 proaches L. cyanocarpus, Jack, but is distinguished by the 

 form of the bracts, lanceolate in this, cordate in the latter 

 species. 



3. Lasianthus Roxburghii, (Mephitidia,W . & A. Prod, 

 page 390, under the order) " shrubby hersute : leaves short 



