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veins beneath : stipules short, triangular, acute : flowers axil- 

 lary, sessile, aggregated : bracteas wanting, or inconspicuous : 

 calyx, strigous campanulate, limb shortly 5-lobed ; lobes tri- 

 angular ciliate : corolla tubular, limb 4-5-lobed, hairy : anthers 

 included : stigma capitate, exserted : ovary 4-5-celled. 



Hab. — Ceylon. 



Obs. — In its general appearance and characters this species 

 approaches L, rostratus ; but is, I think, most certainly dis- 

 tinct. The leaves are about 5 inches long by 2 broad, oblong, 

 elliptic, coriacious, glabrous and shining above, dull with 

 strigous veins below, ending in a sharp subulate point. The 

 flowers are slender, tubular, about | an inch long ; the throat 

 hairy : the berries apparently globose, about the size of peas, 

 4 or 5-celled. 



21. Lasianthus Walkerianus, (R. W.) Shrubby : 

 branches sparingly strigosely hairy or glabrous, compressed : 

 leaves coriacious, petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronately 

 cuspidate ; glabrous above, the veins and margins beneath 

 sparingly pubescent ; when dry, somewhat revolute on the 

 edges : veins prominent on both sides, stipules triangular, 

 short, pointed : flowers axillary, sessile, aggregated, ebractio- 

 late : calyx campanulate ; limb truncate, slightly crenately 

 4-toothed : corolla tubular 4-cleft ; limb and throat hairy ; 

 stamens 4 : stigma sub-exserted, capitate, 4-lobed ; ovary 

 3-4-celled. 



Hab. — Ceylon. In 1836, in company with Colonel Walker, 

 I gathered the specimens now described. 



Obs. — The leaves, which are very coriacious with a tenden- 

 cy to become yellow in drying, from 3 to 4 inches long by 

 from 1 to 1^ broad : the veinlets in this species show a greater 

 tendency to curvature, and net-like reticulation than is usual 

 in this genus. The flowers which are collected into dense 



