426 



(C. B, Clarke.) 



[^Parrottia. 



A. Ovules solitary in eacli cell. 

 Petals 0. 



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Ovary half-inferior. Leaves deciduous. Stamens 5-7 . • . 1- Pareottu. 



Ovary superior. Flowers separate, not in heads 2. DisTTxrcM. 



Ovary half-inferior. Leaves persistent. Stamens 8 .... 3. Sycopsis. 



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Petals p?*esenf. 



Petals obovate-spathulate. Anthers blunt. Leaves deciduous. 4. Cobtlopsis. 

 Petals 4, linear. Connective horned. Leaves persistent . . 6. Loropetalttm* 

 Petals 5, linear. Calyx-tube circumscissile. Leaves persistent 6. Maingata. 



B. Ovules several in each cell. 



7. BUCKXANBIA 



Male flowers with a perianth. Leaves cordate-ovate, entire 

 Male flowers without a perianth. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 



serrate 8. Axtingia 



1. PARROTTIA, a A. Mey. 



Large branching shrubs. Leaves alternate, orbicular or oblong, crenate^ 

 deciduous ; stipules large, early deciduous. Flowet's hermaphrodite, appeanng 

 before the leaves, in capitate heads surroimded by large membranous bracts* 

 Calyx half-adherent to the ovary ; limb 5-7-fid. Petah 0. Stamem equal in 

 nimiber and opposite to the calyx-lobes, perigynous ; anthers dehiscmg ^>y 

 longitudinal slit. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, soon divaricate, with simple stigmas; 

 ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous. Capsule woody ; endocarp homyj 

 separating from the exocarp. Seed narrowly ellipsoid, testa shining strami- 

 neous or scarcely brown. — Distbib. Species 2, one in Kashmir, one in Persia. 



1. F. Jacquemontiana, Dene, in Jacq. Voy, Bot. t. 82 ; anthers tes * 

 than Y*^ in. long subquadrate, ovary and fruit with long woolly pubescence. -«• 

 / 8f T. in Jaum. Linn. Soc. ii. 85 ; Brandts Fo7\ FL p. 216, t. xxviii. Fotner- 

 gilla involucrata, Falc. in Proc. Linn. Soc. \. 18 (tvithaut desmptim). 



Kashmir, alt. 5000-9000 ft.; common. , g. 



A gregarious bush 6-12 ft. high, closely resembling a hazel; twigs and leav 

 beneath with stellate pubescence. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., blunt, petiole 3- m. 1 s- 

 Flowers small, involucral bracts obovate f in. long. Ca/ya'-segments narrow, oDi & 

 or linear. Fruit in harsh spherical heads 1-1 J in. diam. 



BISTirZiIVni, Sieb. & Zucc 



ouiuii ucca. ^f?«re»aiLeruaie; persistent, coriaceous, entire, uwAVJjfe **- 



stipules lanceolate, early deciduous. Flowers small, in short uprigbt 



hlyx free, deeply a-5-fid, imbncat 

 Stainens 2-8 



us, not congested 

 Petah 0. 



anthers 



axillary 

 s ; some- 



-- hj; ft 



with 



lon^tudinal slit. Ovary superior, 2-celled ; styles 2, soon distant at ^^^' j^. 

 capitate stigmas ; ovule solitary in each cell, attached near the upper ^'^^^^Z^^ ' 

 Capmle woody ; endocarp horny, separating from the exocarp. .'^'e^ ^^, ^^ 



ellinsoid. teata fthiTiiTio- s+rQTniTior»na "nTCTTJTT? SnomAQ 9 r one in Khasia, 



•ammeous. — Distktb 

 'hina and Janan. 



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