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nearly glabrous, and the leaves are all lanceolate or oblong, 

 capitula smaller, and fruit smaller all glabrous except a 

 little pubescence on the bracts. B. ovalifolia is remarkable 

 for the dense red velvety hair covering the shoots, peduncles, 

 bracts and fruit. The leaves in Robinson's flowering speci- 

 mens are much the shape of those of B. Teysmanni but more 

 acuminate the nerves hardly more visible, but the midrib is 

 red-scurfy. In the fruiting plants the leaves are quite differ- 

 ent; they are remarkably coriaceous with the nerves depressed 

 above and strongly elevate beneath. At first these leaves are 

 red beneath with a deciduous red scurf: but this at last dis- 

 appears and the leaves appear nearly white beneath. There 

 is a certain amount of variation in the leaves of B. Teysmanni 

 but nothing at all like this. The capitula densely red-hairy, 

 are as big as those of B. Championi or nearly so but the petals 

 are quite as narrow as those of B. Teysmanni. 



SAMYDACEAE. 



Casearia albicans, Wall. 



There has been a considerable amount of confusion about 

 this species which requires clearing up. In Wallich's Her- 

 barium are three sheets of plants under the number 3197, labell- 

 ed 3197, 3197.2, 3197.3. The only one labelled C. albicans is 

 3197.3 from Penang; and it appears to be C. esculenta, Roxb. 

 Xo. 3197.2 from Singapore is in fruit, and seems also to be 

 C. esculenta, No. 3197.3 from Penang, is identical with an- 

 other plant Xo. 7132 ; and this is probably the plant described 

 by King as C. albicans, Wallich. It has no name in Wallich's 

 Herbarium, and is not the same as the plant so named by 

 Wallich. It, therefore, being a distinct plant, requires a 

 name. I call it C. latifolia. I have collected the plant my- 

 self on the side of the track to West Hill in Penang. What 

 Clarke called 0. albicans in the Flora of British India, King 

 has already altered to 0. Glarhei. No specimens of it occur at 

 all in Wallich's Herbarium. 



Casearia velutinosa, n. sp. 



A shrub. Branches velvety, flexuous. Leaves thinly cori- 

 aceous, oblong to ovate, abruptly acuminate, base rounded or 

 shortly narrowed, nerves 12 pairs ascending prominent beneath 

 and depressed above, glabrous above, soft, tomentose beneath, 

 (5 — 10 in. long, 3 — 4 in. wide, petiole tomentose .2 in. long. 

 Glomeruli .15 in. across. Flowers .1 in. wide. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate, pubescent, suborbicular oblong, hairy outside. 

 Petals <). Stamens 10, glabrous, anthers small, forming a 

 tube with the spathulate oblong hairy staminodes. Ovary 

 conic;, glabrous. Stigma large, capitate. 



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