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2 to 3 in., tomentose. Uvibeh pedunculate, solitary or in fascicles of 5 or 
6, axillary, few-flowered, stellate-tomentose : peduncles "5 to 1 in. ; 
pedicels '1 to *25 in,, both slender. Buds 'I in. in diam. Sepals ovate, 
aeuto. Petals rouuded, with long cylindric inflexed apices longer than 
the sepals. Fruit unknown. 
Malacca, Maingay : No. 241 (Kew Distrib.). Perak ; Scortechini, 
Evidently a rare species; for I have seen, besides Maingay'a, only 
Seorteehini's solitary specimen. 
5. B. Jackiana, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Tnd. (ed Carey) ii. 386. A 
stout woody creeper, the young branches with densely minute ferrugi- 
nous tomeutum some of which is stellate. Leaves narrowly or broadly 
elliptic, acuminate, entire ; the base boldly 3-nerved, rounded, sometimes 
slightly cordate, rarely acute ; upper surface sparsely and shortly hispid ; 
nnder surface rufous, hispid- tomentose especially on midrib and nerves, 
many of the hairs on both surfaces stellate ; lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs, 
carved, spreading; length 3'5 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3 75 in. ; petiole *4 
to 1 in, tomentose. Utnbete pedunculate, solitary or in groups of 3 or 4 
from the leaf-axils, few-flowered, tomentose : peduncles '25 to 1 in. 
long ; pedicels about *35, slender. Sepals linear-subulate, spreading, 
hispid, about "4 in. long. Petals sab-rotund, lobed, each with a single 
long cylindric terminal appendage as long as the sepals. Capsule glo- 
bose, slightly 5-f arrowed, 1 in. in diam., black, glabrescent, armed with 
many straight spines. Seeds oblong, black. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind. i. 376 ; Wall. Cat. 1147. 
Penangj Perak and Singapore ; at low elevations. 
6. B. aspera, Colebr. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (od. Carey), ii. 383. A 
powerful woody climber often with a tree-like stem ; young braucbes 
glaucous, minutely and deciduously pubescent. Leaves sub-orbicular 
or ovate-orbicular, shortly acuminate, entire, the base cordate, 5 to 7- 
ncrvecJ ; upper surface glnbrous, shining; the lower glabrescent, the 
midrib and nerves puberulous ; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, prominent 
beneath as are the stout transverse veins ; length 4 5 to 7'5 in., breadth 
about the same: petiole 2 to 5 in., glaucous-pubescent at first, afterwards 
glabrous. Cym?s axillary, solitary or fasciculate, pedunculate, much 
branched, many-flowered, pubescent to tomentose, 3 or 4 in. long : 
ultimate pedicels "5 in. long, slender. Sepals lanceolate, acute, spreading, 
'15 in. long, puberulous externally. Petals cunedte, shorter than the 
sepals, 3-lobed, the middle lobe linear-lanceolate, reflexed. Staminodes 
truncate. Ovary globular, ecabrid Capmles globular, 1*5 to 2 in. 
in diam., slightly depressed, pubescent when young, glabrous when ripe, 
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