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■g- inch or less. Flowers very numerous, crowded in one 

 terminal head of ten with another in the uppermost axil, 

 compound cymose. Cymes 1-2 inches long, branches 

 hairy. Bracts linear obtuse, \ inch long, Calyx \ inch 

 long, lobes linear, free nearly to the base, hairy, green. 

 Corolla white tube, half an inch long, slightly dilated at 

 the base, hairy, green, lobes oblong, slightly narrowed 

 towards the base, obtuse, \ inch long, minutely 

 pubescent on the outside, glabrous within. Stamens very 

 small, anthers lanceolate, minutely mucronate, filament 

 nearly as long, Carpels glabrous, style rather long 

 considerably longer than the carpels cylindric, " Pod 2-3 

 inches long." 



Bangtaphan (Keith) in fields and clearings, very 

 abundant in dry places. Between Singgora and Nong- 

 chik, common in sandy plains (St. V. B. Down). 



There are also three specimens in Cantley's collection 

 No. 2746, without any locality except Singapore from 

 which they could not have come. 



This species is allied to H. lati folia, but differs in its 

 smaller size and the shape and size of the leaves. In 

 this plant they are somewhat variable but there is all 

 through a tendency to become spathulate, the upper end 

 of the leaf being broader than the lower one. They vary 

 much on the same specimen, some are obovate, some 

 almost spathulate, the tip varying from retuse to round- 

 ed and to slightly pointed. 



H.pauci flora, n. sp. 



A dwarf shrub about 3 feet tall with a few slender 

 black stems, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong 

 lanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous, nearly sessile, 1 to 3 

 inches long, f-f inch wide, nerves 5 pairs but often 

 hardly visible, reticulations not marked, margin revolute 

 when dry, petiole to inch long thick. Flowers solitary 

 in pairs in the upper axils, on pubescent pedicels, | inch 



Jour. Straits Branch 



