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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
what thickened and rugose at the apex, and inserted on the 
blade at a considerable angle, a little within the margin. The 
I’acemose panicles are very slender, tomentose, 4-5 inches 
long, with very numerous alternate branchlets, 4-8 lines long, 
bearing several shortly pedicelled minute flowers; the three 
outer sepals are ovate and pubescent on both sides ; the three 
inner sepals are lai'ger, valvate in aestivation, pubescent outside, 
glabrous inside, with a few hairs at the apex : the six petals are 
small, ovate, glabrous, with inflected margins, embracing as 
many subextrorse stamens : the style is short ; stigma oblique, 
reflected, glabrous, and hollow. 
3. Limacia velutina, nob., 1. c. 43 ; Hook. & Th. FI. Ind. i. 189; 
— Cocculus velutinus, JVall. Cat, ; — ramulis tomentosis ; folds 
aut obovatis imo obtusis, sive acutioribus et apice subito 
attenuatis, vel ovatis basi late cordatis apice rotundatis et 
late emarginatis mucronatis, valde coriaceis, 3-5-nerviis, 
nervis 2 intermediis extus ramosis, 2 externis margini proximis 
et parallelis, mox in marginem revolutum continuis, supra lu- 
cidis, reticulatis, glabris, venulis immersis tomentellis exeeptis, 
subtus fulvo vel ferrugineo tomentosis, nervis venisque trans* 
versis prominentibus (junioribus minoribus undique sericeis) ; 
petiolo brevi, crasso, apice basique tumido, valde tomentoso : 
paniculis racemosis ^ geminis, supra-axillaribus, petiolo sub- 
brevioribus, tomentosis, paucifloris, vel in ramulis novellis 
elongato-cirrhiformibus aphyllis et terminalibus ; floribus 
minimis, tomentosis ; sepalis 3 exterioribus bracteiformibus, 
3 intermediis extus pilosis, intus glabris, 3 interioribus 
majoribus, marginibus valvatis, utrinque pilosis ; petalis 6, 
parvis, obovatis, marginibus subauriculatis inflexis; stamini- 
bus 6, filamentis intus hirsutis. — In Ind. orient., v. s. in herb. 
Soc.Linn., J*, Singapoor (Wall. Cat. 4970) ; in herb. Hook., 
Moulmein (Lobb. 335) ; Sincapoor (Schomb. 69) ; ins. Philipp. 
(Cuming, 2402) ; $ Mergui, Tenasserim (Griffiths, 832). 
This is a well-marked species, notwithstanding the great dif- 
ference in the size and shape of its leaves. It differs from all 
other species of the genus in its pilose stamens. Its larger 
leaves are subquadrately oval, very thick and coriaceous, 6 inches 
long, 5;^ inches broad, on a petiole inch long, the tumid base 
of which is articulated on a cupular node in the branch ; the 
younger leaves are 3-4!^ inches long, 1-2^ inches broad, on a 
petiole 9 lines long. Two short, slender ^ racemose panicles 
spring from a point 2 lines above the petiole ; they are 6-12 lines 
long, with three short branches, each bearing three pedicellated 
flowers ; the filaments are quite smooth behind, but in fx’ont are 
covered with long, nearly erect hairs. Lobb's specimen, above 
