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petioled, lanceolar, entire, acuminate : flowers axillary, sessile, 

 much shorter than their numerous lanceolar bracteas : ber- 

 ries 5 seeded." Triostium hersutum. Roxb. D.C. 



Hab. — Chittagong, flowering during the hot season. 



Obs. — My specimen of this plant is very old, and somewhat 

 deteriorated, so that I can scarcely add to Roxburgh's brief 

 character. 



It is every where hairy, that on the upper surface short 

 and very rough, springing from elevated glandular ? points ; 

 below it is much longer and somewhat matted, especially 

 on the costa and veins : the leaves are nearly sessile, about 7 

 inches long, by about 2 or 2\ broad acuminated : stipules lan- 

 ceolate obtuse : bracteae numerous ; exterior one foliacious 

 lanceolate, interior bract subulate or approaching to filiform, 

 covered with long coarse hair, in which the flowers seem to be 

 concealed. The flowers I have not attempted to examine, 

 believing it useless. 



4. Lasianthus Wallichii. (Mephitidia Wallichii, W. & 

 A. Prod. p. 390, under the order) shrubby leaves subsessile, 

 oblong, acuminate, unequal at the base, coriaceous, hairy 

 when young, afterwards nearly glabrous : stipules linear lan- 

 ceolate, hispid : bracteas numerous, linear lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 hispid, ciliate, about the length of the corolla : flowers 

 numerous axillary sessile : calyx 5-cleft, lacineae lanceolate 

 acuminate persistent : corolla funnel-shaped, hispid ; tube 

 about an inch long; limb 5-cleft, divisions linear, bluntish, 

 hairy, shorter than the tube : ovary 5 -celled, ovules erect : 

 stigma 5-lobed : fruit (unripe) baccate ? (abridged from Wal- 

 lich's description.) 



Novatilea? hispida, Wall, in Roxb. Flor. Ind. Carey's 

 Edition, 2, p. 187. 



Hab. — Silhet, flowering hot season* 



