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This species is remarkable for its very long narrow leaves, 
which are attenuated at their apex into a lengthened linear ex- 
tension ; they are of a pale colour above, of a glaucous yellowish 
hue below, about 6 inches long, including the linear apical ex- 
tension of an inch in length, and ^ of an inch broad, upon a 
slender petiole 3 or 4 lines in length. The inflorescence seldom 
exceeds 4 lines in length, several flowers about 2 lines long 
being almost fasciculated on an axillary peduncle of 2 lines in 
length, all quite glabrous : the calyx is small, cupshaped and 
5-toothed ; petals 4, linear ; stamens 4, with very fleshy filaments 
nearly the length of the petals, furnished on their margins and 
apex unth a dense fringe of long clubshaped hairs ; the two anther 
lobes are each 2-celled, sterile, and filled with grumous matter ; 
the ovarium is smooth, cylindrical, or ^ the length of the 
stamens, sterile, and terminated by a hollow, tubular, conical 
style, divided at its apex into four acute erect teeth. 
17. Stemonurus Heyneanus. Olax Heyneanus, j — ramulis 
subflexuosis, glabris ; foliis oblongis, utrinque acutis, apice 
breviter repente angustatis, glaberrimis, opacis, petiolo gra- 
cili ; racemo axillari, petiolo sublongiori, bifido, vel subdicho- 
tome ramoso, floribus seeundis, vel subaggregatis ; calyce 
cupuliformi, 5-denticulato, petalis 4-5, linearibus, apicula in- 
flexa longe propendenti, staminibus 4-5, crassis, demum elon- 
gatis et exsertis, pilis clavatis antheris fertilibus 2-plo longi- 
oribus munitis ; ovario sterili, subgloboso, 4-5-sulcato, apice 
pulviniformi, subumbilicato, stylo brevnssimo, fere obsolete. — 
India. Orient. — [v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn, et Hook., Wall. Cat. 
6780. — Ceylon, Gardner, 102.) 
This plant bears much the aspect of Stemonurus pohjmorphus ; 
the leaves are of a pale green, of nearly the same hue on both 
sides ; the specimens in the herbarium of the Linnaean Society 
are oblong, with parallel sides, or sometimes tapering a little 
towards the base from the upper part, where they are broadest, 
and then suddenly contracted into a narrow and obtuse point ; 
they are 3 to 3i inches long, li inch broad, on a slender petiole 
about 4 lines in length. In the Ceylon specimens the leaves 
taper more regularly to each extremity, and are somewhat nar- 
rower. The flowers are generally 5-, rarely 4-merous ; sometimes 
the hairs of the stamens are short and nearly obsolete, at other 
times double the length of the anthers ; the cells of these are in 
some specimens replete with perfect pollen, in others filled with 
grumous matter : the ovarium is generally depressed or globose, 
and I have never met with a single instance of their possessing 
ovuhgerous cells. 
18. Stemonurus axillaris. Gomphandra axillaris. Wall. Lasi- 
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