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 Randia uncata, n. sp. 



Shrub 10 to 20 feet erect, armed with stout curved 

 hooked spines, i inch long in pairs from axils. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong to oblong lanceolate 4 inches long, 1 

 inch wide, glabrous, nerves 8 pairs, apex obtuse, base 

 slightly narrowed, petiole i inch. Cyme compound short 

 dense sessile, terminal 1 inch long, and li inch wide. 

 Bracts persistent ovate, acute, amplexicaul i inch long, 

 Pedicels about as long. Flowers yellowish white fragrant, 

 Calyx goblet-shaped narrowed into pedicel with 5 short 

 acute lobes, g inch long. Corolla tube cylindric, shart, 

 thick, hairy within lobes elliptic oblong obtuse J inch" long. 

 Stamens 5 shorter, linear oblong, yellow, eventually 

 reflexed. Style stout fusiform, fruit not seen. 



Bangtaphan in clearings (Keith). 



The claws are brown corky at the base with a white ' 

 polished tip. The stipules free, ovate cuspidate. 



R. (Geriscus) dasycarpa (Kurz) R. tomentosa, Hook. fil. (not 

 of Blume). 



On heaths Setul (15066), and Bangtaphanoi on the 

 sea-beach (Keith). 



All the descriptions of this plant, I have seen are 

 very incomplete, but I have little doubt that my identifi- 

 cation is that of the plant intended. A fuller description 

 will however, be perhaps of use. 



It is a large spreading shrub about 12 to 18 feet tall, 

 strongly armed with stout axillary spines, 2 inches long, 

 straight and horizontal. Bark grey with rounded lenti- 

 cels. Young. .parts red scurfy. Leaves appearing after the 

 flowers, spathulate, apex rounded, base acuminate, coria- 

 ceous li inch long, f inch wide, above dark green velvety, 

 beneath densely covered with soft close white hairs^ ner- 

 ves 10 pairs, depressed above elevate beneath. Flowers 

 on short thick peduncles with ovate red hairy persistent 

 bracts, pedicels short, 4 inch long, a cup-shaped circle of 



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