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sometimes 3, ovate acuminate, thinner, pubescent on the back, eiliate 
and more or less scarious on the margins. Corolla campanulate, '4 in. 
long ; tube nearly -2 in. long, glabrous outside, densely ferruginous hairy 
within in the upper half ; lobes 10 (?), lanceolate, acuminate, as long as 
tube. Stamens 20 in 1 row, but the 10 opposite the corolla-lobes 
behind the 10 alternate with them ; filaments -05 in. long, hairy ; 
anthers linear-sagittate, extrorse, the connective produced in a long 
penicillate acumen. Ovary rounded, densely hairy, as is the lower 
half of the - 75 in. long slender style ; cells 10. Fruit not known. 
Pkovince Wellesley : at Tassek Glugor, Curtis 3737, said to be 
common. Vern. name “ Minjato." 
In its leaves this species greatly resembles B. aristulata, but the slender pedicels,, 
smaller flowers, acuminate calyx, and penicillate anthers at once distinguish it. 
5. Bassia malaccensis, King & Gamble. A large tree (?); branchlets 
dark brown, rough, with prominent old leaf-sears, innovations nearly 
glabrous. Leaves chartaceous or almost membranous ; obovate or 
obovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly and abruptly acute at apex, cuneate 
at base ; glabrous above, sparsely and minutely pubescent beneath 
when young, glabrous when old ; 6 to 12 in. long, 4 to 6-5 in. broad ; 
midrib prominent, thick ; main-nerves very conspicuous, 14 to 16 pairs, 
parallel, in average leaves -5 in. apart, in large ones often nearly 1 in., 
starting at an angle of 60° with the midrib, at once curving gently 
upwards to and along the margin ; secondary nerves few, reticulations 
mostly transverse, not prominent; petiole 1 to 2 in. long, slightly 
bordered above to about half-way down by the decurrent margins of the 
blade, base much swollen, wrinkled. Flowers fascicled 4 to 8 together in 
the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen leaves, on rather thick 
pubescent tubercles ; pedicels ‘4 to - 6 in. long, pubescent ; buds when 
young rounded-conical. Calyx-lobes 4 ; 2 outer valvate or slightly 
imbricate, ovate, bluntly acute or mucronate, rusty-pubescent, -25 in. 
long; 2 inner imbricate, ovate-acute, margins sometimes scarious, 
sometimes eiliate, back thickly rusty-pubescent, more or less keeled. 
Corolla campanulate ; tube very short, rarely -1 in. long, with a short 
ring of hairs at the mouth inside ; lobes 10-12, lanceolate, obtuse, sub- 
2-seriate, -25 to - 3 in. long, glabrous except for a few stiff hairs outside. 
Stamens 20 to 24 in 2 rows ; the inner almost or quite sessile, alternate 
with the corolla-lobes ; the outer with short densely pubescent filaments, 
longer than the inner ones; anthers narrowly lanceolate with long 
hairs, opening on the margins ; connective produced in a long hair-like 
acumen. Ovary hairy, elongate, conical, style -25 in. long. Fruit a 
fleshy obovate-oblong berry with somewhat flattened top, surmounted 
