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3, H. asgustifolu, L. sp. 1366. A shrub 4 to 6 feet high : young 
branches, petioles, under surfaces of leaves and peduncles minutely and 
more or lees densoly pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblnnceolate, acuto 
(or obtuse and mucronate in var. obtusa) ; entire ; the base narrowed 
3-nervod ; upper surfaoe glabrescent or glabrous ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 
pairs, not prominent; length 1*5 to 2 in., breadth '4 to ' 8 in., petiole 
2 to '3 in. Cymes axillary, solitary, not much longer than the petioles, 
few-flowered. Floiuers *4 or "5 in. long. Calyx densely stollate-tomen- 
tose externally, cylindric, the month slightly expanded, with 5 acute 
triangular teoth, 2-lipped. Petals longer than the calyx, linear-Rub- 
spathulate, with 2 or 3 horned appendages bolow the middle. Staminal 
column shorter than the petals, narrowly cylindric and otherwise as in 
M. Isora, the stamens smaller. Ovary inserted near tha apex of the 
Btaminal tube, sub-globular, ridged, tomentose. Fruit ovoid-cylmdric, 
apiculate, not twisted, the carpels closely coherent, 75 in. long and 
'4 in. in diam., densely covered with stellate, villous soft prickles as in 
H, hirsuta. DC. Prodr, i. 476* ; Mast, in Hook. HI. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 365 j 
BL Bijdr. 80; Pierre PI. Forest. Coch-Chino, t. 210 and 211 ; Wall. 
Cat. 1180. H. lanceolata, DC. Prodr. i. 476 ; Pierre, 1. o. 210 H. 
H. virgata, Wall. Cat. 1181. Oiuiemansia integer-rima, Miq, PL Jungh. 
i. 296 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 170. Oud. Javensis, Hassk. Retzia, i. 13 k 
OitJtothecium Javense, Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 307. 
Malayan Archipelago, China. 
Var. obtusa, (species Wall. Cat. 1184) ; Pierre, 1, c. 211 B, 14 to 25. 
Kurz in Jouin. As. Soo. Beng. 1873, pt. ii. 62. Leaves obtuse, 
mucronate. 
Perak ; Nicohar Islands, 
6. Pterospermum, Schreb. 
Trees or shrubs, scaly or siellate-tomeutosc. Leaves usually bifari- 
ous, leathery, oblique, simple or lobed, penninerved. Peduncles 1-3, 
axil lary and terminal. Bmrteoles entire, laciniate, persistent or cadu- 
cous. Calyx of 5 valvate, coriaceous, more or less connate, sepals. 
Petals 5, imbricate, membranous, deciduous with the calyx. Staiiiinal 
column short, bearing opposite to the sepals 3 linear 2-celled anthers, 
and opposite to the petals 5 ligulate staminodes ; cells parallel ; connec- 
tive apiculate. Ovary inserted within the top of the stamina! colnmu, 
3-5 celled ; style entire, stigma 5-furrowed ; ovules many in each cell. 
Capsule woody or coriaceous, terete or angled, loculicidally 5-valved. 
Seeds winged above, attached in two rows to the inner angle of the cells 
of the capsule ; nllmiuon thin or 0 ; cotyledons plaited or corrugated, 
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