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the top in three valves ; seeds 5, oblong, 3-angled, outer coat 
loose, net-like. (Fig. 71.) 
Tara Devi, and valleys below Simla, common ; September -November. — 
Throughout India, ascending to 6500 ft. — China. 
10. LEPTODERMIS. From the Greek leptos, thin, delicate, 
and derma , skin ; referring to the thin, membranous involucre sur- 
rounding each flower. — India, Burmah, China. 
Leptodermis lanceolata. Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 198. A rigid, 
erect, nearly glabrous shrub, 4-8 ft. ; branches spreading. Leaves 
fetid when crushed, opposite, shortly stalked, lanceolate, 1-3 in., 
finely pointed ; both surfaces, margins and nerves beset with 
scattered, minute, white hairs ; stipules short, broad, acute, per- 
sistent. Flowers often 1 -sexual, nearly | in. long, white, some- 
times tinged with purple, in small, bracteate heads terminal on 
short branchlets and forming a large, paniculate inflorescence, 
each flower half-enclosed in a tubular involucre formed of two 
partially united, thin, membranous, pointed bracts. Calyx small ; 
lobes 5, obtuse, fringed, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube 
hairy within; lobes 5, short, spreading. Stamens 5, filaments 
short, anthers linear. Ovary 5-celled ; style long, slender, 5- 
branched at the top ; ovules solitary in each cell. Capsule cylin- 
