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the base, whence they suddenly contract and terminate in a 

 narrow pointed acumen. The compressed ramuli, large leaves 

 and stipules, and very numerous, narrow, linear pointed 

 coarsely hairy bracts, which form the involucrum to the 

 flowers, render this an easily recognized species. 



8. Lasianthus retosus, (R. W.) Shrubby : ramuli terete 

 very hairy : leaves ovate lanceolate, acuminate, short petioled 

 coriacious, glabrous, except the costa above ; hairy below, 

 strongly marked with a network of veins, the reticulations 

 depressed above, prominent beneath : stipules small triangu- 

 lar : bracteas subulate hairy, about the length of the calyx, 

 thickly clothed with long coarse hairs : flowers numerous, 

 sessile : calyx 5 -parted, segments subulate hairy : corolla 

 7-cleft : stamens 7-ovary, 7-celled. 



Hab. — Mount Ophir, Malacca, Griffith. 



Obs. — The want of symmetry between the calyx and the 

 rest of the flower, if constant, will always render this an 

 easily recognized species : the distinctness of the reticulations 

 increases with the age of the leaves, owing to the interspaces 

 increasing faster than the veins, and becoming bullate. 



9. Lasianthus pilosus, (R. W.) Shrubby: branches 

 clothed with long black shaggy hair : stipules long, subulate 

 pointed : sessile semicordate or somewhat unequal sided at 

 the base, acuminated, sprinkled with short hairs on both 

 sides, more abundantly below : hairs of the bracts and calyx 

 black or dark brown : bracts few, narrow lanceolate : calyx 

 six cleft enlarging in fruit, divisions slender subulate per- 

 sistent : corolla — ?: ovary 6-8-celled : fruit hairy, crowned 

 with the long shaggy limb of the calyx. 



Hab. — Malacca, Griffith. 



Obs. — Approaches L. ineguohs, Blume, in its unequal sided 

 leaves, but the character " bracteis lanceolatis involucratis," 



