504 Notes on Indian Botany. 



Obs. — Leaves narrow, acute, finely acuminated, from 4 to 

 6 inches long, smooth above, roughish beneath : flowers white, 

 hispid, stamina included. 



5. Lasianthus Moonii, (R. W.) shrubby : ramulis lightly 

 compressed, hairy : leaves short petioled oval cuspidate or 

 shortly acuminate, coriacious, glabrous, shining above, coarsely 

 reticulated and hairy beneath : stipules short, obtuse, and 

 with the petioles and bracts thickly clothed with long coarse 

 hairs : bracteas numerous short ; exterior ones orbicular 

 cuspidate, shortly acuminate ; interior bracts slender subulate : 

 flowers axillary numerous, umbellate on short stout peduncles : 

 calyx campanulate, limb 4-5-cleft hairy. Corolla — ? : ovary 

 4-5-celled. Ceylon. 



Apparently from the specimen, a stout shrub, internodes of 

 ramuli slightly ancepitous, flattened at the joints : leaves 

 about 6 inches long by about 3 broad, nearly a perfect oval ; 

 the thick and hairy forming a coarse network beneath. 



It seems nearly allied to L. Cyanocarpa, but is readily dis- 

 tinguished by its numerous flowers, and somewhat umbellate 

 inflorescence. The suborbicular pointed bracts of this species 

 are very peculiar. 



6. Lasianthus attenuatus ? (Jack) shrubby : hairy : 

 leaves ovate, or suborbate, somewhat unequal at the base, 

 alternated to a fine point, glabrous above, except the costa, 

 thinly pubescent beneath, especially on the veins : flowers 

 few 1-3, sessile, axillary, enclosed in an envolucrum of about 

 6 linear lanceolate bracts: Calyx 4- cleft, with a wide sinus 

 between the laminae : Corolla — : fruit — : 



Hab. — Malacca, Griffith. 



Obs. — I have added a doubt to the specific name, as a close 

 comparison of my specimen with Jack's description shows 

 some discrepancies. His plant is described as suffrutescent, 

 mine seems from the specimen quite a shrub : the branches in 



