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LXYii. DATiscACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



657 



both ends, flowers fascicled, rarely ou short lateral branches and &lsely ra- 

 ^emed. Zamk. HI. t 823; WaU. Ciit. 4664; A. DC. Prodr. xv, pt. i. 410: 

 Sibth. Fl. Ormc. t, 960. D. nepalensis, Don Prodr. 203. 



Temperate and Subtropical Western Himalaya from Kashmie to Nipal, alt. 

 1000-6000 ft.; Wallich, Tho7mon, &c., not very common.— Distrib. Westward to 

 the Levant. 



Stem 2-6 ft, stout, branching. Lower leaves 1 ft., pinnate; leaflets 7-11, 

 6 by 1^ in., petioluled; upper much smaller and less divided; floral simple, 3 by 

 It in. Pedicels often carrying linear bracts. Antliers oblong, rather large ; filaments 

 very short. Styles \ in. Capsule \ by less than ^ in. 



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A large tree. 



Leaves petioled, ovate, pubescent beneath at least on the 

 nerves. Flotoers dioecious, appearino; before the leaves ; males panicled, females 

 in elongate racemes, clustered near tue ends of the branchlets. Male : Calyx- 

 lobes short ; teeth 4, ovate, one or two smaller teeth sometimes added ; petals 0; 

 rtamens 4, opposite the calyx-teeth, inserted round a depressed disc : rudiment 

 of the ovary or quadrangular. Female : Calyx-tube ovoid ; teeth 4, short ; 

 petals 0; styles 4, short, stigmas simple somewhat club-shaped. Capsule ovoid, 

 With 4 lines or slight ridges, membranous, opening at the top between the 

 ^les. Seeds very many, minute, flattened, ellipsoid, testa very lax and extend- 

 ing much beyond the nucleus as a loose ragged large-reticulated membrane. 



1. T, nudlflora, R. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 79, t. 17 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 ^■Vt. i. 411 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 212 ; Brand. For. Fl. 245; Xurz For. Fl. 535. 

 T. Grahamiana, Wit/ht Ic. t. 1956; A. DC. I.e. T. ruflnervis, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 ^oi. i. pt. i. 726 : A. DC. I.e. Anictoclea Grahamiana, Nimmo in Grah. Cat, 

 Bomb. PI. 



SiKxm, alt. 2000 ft. ; J. D. H. Western Ghats from Bombay to Cetlon. 

 ?ta>iA, Tknassertm and Andamans, frequent, Kurz. — Distbib. Java. 



Attains 100-150 ft. Leaves 5-6 by 4-5 in, roundly ovate, shortly acuminate, 

 serrate or nearly entire, pubescent on both surfaces when young, glabresceat when 

 ^^^ glabrous in Mr. Kurz's Andaman plant except the" nerves beneath. ' Sacenus and 

 Panicles pubescent ; flowers sessile or nearly so, bracts minute or 0. Anthers small, 

 'oundish ; filaments long. Capside | by J in., glandular. 



252.— Indeterminata, Wall Cat. 9046 



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^lly represented by tufts of spines, or by prickl 

 solitary, sessile, hermanhrodite, regiilar. Ckdy 



(By C. B. Clarke.) 



often thickened, striated, or angled. Le 



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jobes a^Qo 



8 or small tubercles. Flowers 



-tube adnate to the ovary, 



Petids 00 , free or shortly united at the base, 



filif 



orm 



Stamens oo , free or adnate to the base of 1 

 varu 1 -celled : atvle filiform or cylindric, stigm 



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1-celled, placentas 



Mip. 



reniform.; albumen plentiful, or scanty, or almost ; 

 Distrib. Species 1000, confined to America, ex- 



ssyth 



^imA DixLENii, Haw.; DC. Prodr 



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