1870.] On some new or imperfectly known Indian plants. 67 



multo breviora, linearia, rigida, puberula ; calycis lobi e basi lata 

 lanceolati, acuminatissimi, medio valde costati, 3 — 4 lin. longi, 

 dense puberuli ; capsulse dense stupposo-tomentosse. — In the 

 jungles of Kanbtiri, Siam (Teysmann in Hb. Bogor. 6979). — 

 A very distinct species, not unlike in habitus to certain JJrenas. 



STERCVLIACEJE. 



25. HelictereS plebeja n. sp. Fruticulus, partibus juni- 

 oribus stellato-scabris, gemmisque canescente tomentosis; folia 

 ovato-lanceolata v. ovato-oblonga, breve graciliterque petiolata, 

 basi rotundata, circa 3 — 5 poll, longa, magis minusve regulari-den- 

 tata, acuminata, membranacea, supra parce hispidula v. sub-glabra, 

 subtus minute stellato-hispidula et scabra, junior a, rarissime 

 etiam adulta, dense canescente-tomentosa ; flores parvi, flaviduli 

 v. pallide lilacini, breve pedicellati ; cymi pauciflori axillares 

 stellato -puberuli graciles ; calyx circiter 2^ lin. longus, parce 

 stellato-pilosus ; petala calyce paullo longiora ; capsulse 8 — 10 

 lin. longse, stellato-tomentosse et muricatee, carpellis mox separa- 

 tis et. subulatis. — Arracan, frequent in the Pynkadu forests of the 

 lower sandstone hills in Kolodyne valley, &c. 



TILIACEM. 



26. BrownlOWia argentata, n. sp. Arbor parva ? parti- 

 bus omnibus novellis argenteo-v. subcupreo-lepidotis ; folia ovata 

 v. late ovata, 4 — 5 poll, longa, petiolis 5 lin. usque ad 2 poll, longis, 

 lepidotis demum glabrescentibus suffulta, acuminata, basi rotundata 

 v. subcordata, coriacea, supra glaberrima, subtus argenteo-lepidota 

 et ferrugineo-punctata ; paniculse elongate, racemiformes, termi- 

 nals et axillares, argenteo-lepidota3 atque glabrescentes ; flores 

 2£ lin. circiter longi, breviuscule pedicellati ; calyx ferrugineo- v. 

 argenteo-lepidotus ; carpella juvenilia lepidota. — Moluccas, Burii 

 Okie (Teysmann in Hb. Bogor.). Atdn laut inc. 



27. Leptonychia glabra, T u r c z., in Bull. Mosc, 1858, 1, 222, is 

 evidently the same plant as Grewia heteroclita, B x b., M. Ind., II, 

 590, and will, therefore, have to be called Leptonychia heteroclita. 



28. Echinocarpus murex, B th., (Linn. Soc. Proc. v. Suppl. 72) is 

 the same as E. Sigun, Bl., B\dr., 56. The only difference, 



