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his are said to be villous ; in mine they are densely hairy : the 

 leaves of both nearly correspond : his are said to be softly vil- 

 lous beneath, from 3 to 4 inches long by about one broad : the 

 largest leaves on my specimen, which is evidently a young 

 one, are 3J inches long by one broad, and the difference be- 

 tween softly villous and thinly pubescent, can of itself be no 

 importance as a specific distinction, as that may be attribut- 

 able, in cases like the present, to a difference of soil or season, 

 or even to a difference of the idea attached by the writers to 

 the same words. The most material discrepancy between his 

 description and my plant, lies in the bracteas, in his "two 

 opposite lanceolate acute villous," in my specimen there are 

 about six in each axil : the flowers so far as my specimen 

 enables me to compare them, correspond. A.s the correspon- 

 dence between the more essential points of structure is con- 

 siderable, I refer my specimen to Jack*s species with consider- 

 able confidence, but not without doubt. When examined 

 under a magnifier the hairs of this species seem almost moni- 

 liform. In nearly all the species the hairs are more or less 

 articulated, in this they are peculiarly so. 



7- Lasianthus Griffithii, (R. W.) shrubby: branches, 

 especially at the joints, compressed, hairy when young, after- 

 wards glabrous : leaves large, lanceolate, acuminate, widest 

 part above the middle, glabrous above, pubescent, and on the 

 veins hairy, beneath : stipules broad, triangular, pointed : 

 flowers sessile, crowned, enclosed in an involucrum of nu- 

 merous subulate very hairy bracteas ; calyx limb about seven 

 cleft ; divisions acute, thickly clothed with long hairs ; corol- 

 la 7-cleft, throat and laminae very hairy, stamens 7, sessile : 

 style filiform : stigma capitate, 7-lobed, ovary 7-celled. 



Hab. — Malacca, Griffith. 



Obs. — A large species ; leaves upwards of 12 inches long 

 by from 3£ to 4 broad at the broadest part : about § above 



