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elongated inflorescence. The leaves are 2^-2^ inches long, 
ly-lj inch broad at their base, on a petiole 6-7 lines long; 
the slender raceme-like inflorescence is 2^-3 inches long, with 
axils 1-4 lines apart, pubescent ; the setaceous bracteoles are 
1 line long, from which issue one to three pedicellated flowers ; 
pedicels | line long; flowers, before expansion, i line in dia- 
meter; three outer sepals acutely elliptic, fuscous, glabrous, 
with ciliated margins; three inner sepals somewhat longer, 
nearly orbicular, opaque, glabrous, with membranaceous erosely 
denticulated margins; petals 6, acutely elliptic, length of outer 
sepals, thick, fleshy, shortly inflected around the claw ; stamens 
six, of equal length ; three sterile rudimentary ovaries. 
5. Pachyfjone hebephyllus, nob.; — ramulis virgatis, teretibus, 
pubescentibus; foliisovato-oblongis,imo obtusis vel rotundatis, 
apice vix acutis et mucronatis, e basi 5-nerviis, subflaccidis, 
supra glabris aut nervis subpuberulis, delicatule reticulatis, 
subtus pallidioribus, mollissime flavido-puberulis ; petiolo te- 
nuissimo, limbo dimidio vel paulo breviore, flavide tomentello : 
panicula axillari, petiolo subsequilonga, pubescente, alter- 
natim ramosa; ramis brevibus, imo bracteolatis, alternatim 
3-4-floris; pedicellis imo bracteolatis; sepalis 6, biseriatis, 
exterioribus oblongis, pilosulis, interioribus duplo majoribus, 
orbiculatis, concavis, fuscis, membranaceis, glabris ; petalis 6, 
brevioribus, late ovatis, imo cuneatis, marginibus infra me- 
dium introflexis, fuscis, glabris ; staminibus 6, petalis sequi- 
longis. — In Java : v. s. in herb. Hook. Java (Horsfleld, 304), 
in herb. Mus. Brit. ^ , Java (Horsfleld). 
A species differing from all the preceding in its very soft to- 
mentose leaves. The branches are very slender and straight, 
the leaves soft and flaccid, 1^-2^ inches long, Tg-lf inch broad, 
on a very slender petiole 10-12 lines long. The panicle is 
|-1^ inch long; the rachis and bracteoles fulvo-pubescent ; the 
flowers minute ; the petals have the inflected auricular lobes 
placed a little below their middle. 
6. Pachygone odorifera, nob. ; — valde ramosa, ramulis longis- 
simis, dependentibus, teretibus, substriatis, glabris; folds 
oblongis, imo rotundatis vel obtusulis, apice obtusiusculis, 
calloso-niucronulatis, e basi 3-5-nerviis, utrinque glaberrimis, 
fusco-viridibus et concoloribus, supra nitentibus, nervis venis- 
que reticulatis et subimmersis, subtus Isevissimis, costa me- 
diana prominente, nervis primariis vix prominulis, marginibus 
integris, undulatis; petiolo tenui, tereti, glabro, apice basi- 
que paulo tumidulo, limbo 5-plo breviore : racemo pulvino 
rufo-piloso supra-axillari orto, folio longiore ; rachi gracili, pu- 
