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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
pallidioribus, reticulatis, nervis tenuissimis, vix prominulis, 
costa basin versus puberula ; petiolo tenuissimo, adpresse 
pubescente, limbo 3-4-plo breviore : racemis axillaribus, 
. elongatis ; rachi rectiuscula, subadscendente, folio 5-plo lon- 
giore, spicatim racemiformi ; axillis bracteolatis, floribus 1-3 
fasciculatis breviter pedicellatis munitis; sepalis 6, quorum 
3 interiora duplo majora, suborbicularibus, concavis, valde 
imbricatis, margiiiibus membranaceis eroso-denticulatis, prui- 
noso-punctulatis ; petalis 6, oblongis, versus basin lobis 2 
glandulseformibus inflectis munitis ; staminibus 6 ; ovariis 
rudimentariis 3. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. Hook., 
Courtallam, ^ (Thwaites). 
This is distinct from all the preceding species, and is nearest 
P. ovata, but differs in its leaves being acute at both extremi- 
ties, almost membranaceous in texture, upon an almost filiform 
petiole, in its very elongated spicated inflorescence, with alter- 
nate axils which are 1-3-flowered, bracteated, the bracts some- 
times petiolated and assuming the form of the leaf, and in its 
rugulose glaucous sepals. The leaves are If inch long, f-1 inch 
broad, on a petiole 6 lines long. The rachis of the inflores- 
cence is straight, very slender, 6-7 inches long, its axils 2 or 3 
lines apart, furnished with a pilose setaceous bract 1 line 
long, which is sometimes replaced by a pilose leaflet acute at 
both extremities, 2 lines long, 1| line broad, on a petiolule 
1 line long, and a cuspidate point \ line long : out of each axil 
spring one to four flowers upon pedicels 1 line long ; the sepals 
are very pale, with a remarkably shagreened surface, and are 
nearly orbicular. 
4. Pachyyone adversa, nob.; — Pachygone ovata, H. Th. [in 
parte) FI. Ind-. i. 203 ; — ramulis virgatis, teretibus, pubescen- 
tibus; folds trapeziformi-oblongis, imo 2-sinuato-obtusis- 
simis et fere truncatis, angulis rotundatis, sursum gradatim 
augustioribus, apice obtusis et calloso-mucronatis, rarius 
acutiusculis, e basi 5-uerviis, nervis extus ramosis, membrana- 
ceis, supra subnitidis, dense viridibus, glabris, valde reticu- 
latis, subtus brunneo-glaucis, pubescentibus, marginibus sub- 
revolutis ; petiolo subtenui, ferrugineo-pubescente, limbo 4- 
plo breviore ; raceino ^ supra-axillari, solitario, racemiformi, 
laxe spicato, adscendente, folio sequilongo, pubescente ; rachi 
rectiuscula, axillis alteruis minime bracteolatis, floribus 3 
brevissime pedicellatis fasciculatis munitis ; pedicellis brac- 
teolisque puberulis ; floribus fere glabris. — In Ceylonia : v. s. 
in herb. Hook., Ceylon (Thwaites, 1054). 
A species remarkable for the dilated base of its leaves and its 
