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apart) are 4-6 lines long, and bear from one to three alternate 
flowers on pedicels 1 line long ; the flowers are 1 line in dia- 
meter in the bud ; they have generally fifteen sepals in ternary 
series, diminishing outwards, the external ones bracteiform ; all 
are ovate, fuscous, marked with reddish dotted lines, and with a 
broadly hyaline border, glabrous but ciliated on the margins ; 
the six petals are shorter than the sepals, oblong, fuscous, sub- 
fleshy in the middle, with two prominent glands near the 
bottom, the three inner ones with two erect tooth-like lobes 
at the base ; six equal stamens, more than half the length of 
the petals, erect, in two imbricating series, with strap-shaped 
filaments, suddenly expanding into a wide, suborbicular, concave, 
hood-like connective, with a thick prominent ridge down the 
middle, the margins being broadly membranaceous ; two small, 
subglobular, separate anther-lobes are dorsally affixed on each 
side of the ridge a little below the centre, which thus lie con- 
cealed by the broad membranaceous sides and hooding summit ; 
the filaments are firmly agglutinated to a central receptacle, 
which supports three sterile ovate ovaries the length of the fila- 
ments, each with a terete erect style. 
3. Hcematocarpus incusus, nob. ; — ramulis strictis, striolatis, 
pruinosis, obsolete tomentellis ; foliis ovatis, imo rotundatis, 
apice repente constrictis, acumine brevi acuto et mucronato, 
imo 3-nerviis, nervis divaiicatis, longe ultra medium pro- 
tensis, et cum aliis superioribus utrinque 2-3 arcuatim nexis, 
planis, flaccidis, reticulatis, glaberrimis, supra obscure viridi- 
bus, opacis, sub lente corrugato-insculptis, nervis impressis, 
subtus nitidioribus, nervis prominulis ; petiolo tenui, striato, 
glabro, apice ruguloso, limbo 5-plo breviore : racemis ^ race- 
mosis, in ramis aphyllis annotinis binis, folio 3-plo longiori- 
bus; rachi tenuissima; ramis subbrevibus, remotiusculis, 
bracteolatis, flores 3 breviter pedicellatos gerentibus ; sepalis 
15, exterioribus bracteiformibus, ternatim imbricatis, ovatis, 
venose pictis, marginibus late membranaceis et ciliatis ; 
petalis 6, ellipticis, subacutis, carnosulis, guttatim lineolatis, 
marginibus membranaceis, apice denticuloso-erosis, 3 in- 
terioribus lobis 2 basalibus dentiformibus instructis ; stami- 
nibus 6, filamentis brevioribus, connective oblongo, concavo, 
marginibus dilatato-membranaceis, dorso incurvo, carina ex- 
terna obtusa fusca signato, antherae lobis 2 sejunctis, majus- 
culis, lateribus immersis, valde hyalinis, sutura marginali 2- 
valvatim hiantibus ; ovariis sterilibus 3, oblongis, erectis, 
stylo apiculatis. — In Himalaya : v. s. in herb. Hook., cum 
foliis, Sikhim (Hook. & Th.) ; florescens sine foliis, Khasya 
(Hook. & Th.). 
