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Stamens twice or thrice the petals. Cotyledons crumpled ... 1 Alavqiuv 

 Stamens equalling the peUls in number. Cotyledons flat * ■> t.Zl^"- 



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Ovarj 2-celIed . . . ; o r< 



Ovary 1-ceIIed - \ \ \ \ \ \ \ [ . \ \ 4' M™' 



Flowers unisexual. 



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 Petals 4. Stamens 4 



tt Leaves alternate, 



O^ary 1 -celled. Flowers in dense heads ."...' 6. Ntssa. 



^rary 4-celled. Flowers in large panicles 7. ToRrcELLiA 



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1. AZiAITGZUIIC^ Lamk. 



Shrubs or small trees, armed or not. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, 

 . entire, 3-nerved at the base, persistent. Flowers in axillary fascicles or con- 

 densed cymes^ hermaphrodite, siliiy^ white, jointed on the pedicel; bracts 0. 

 ^alyx^tube adnate to the ovary, limb 6-10-toothed or truncate. Petals 5-10, 

 iinear-oblong, valvate, then reflexed. Stamens twice as many as the petals or 

 jj^ore, filaments- hairy ; anthers very long. Ovary inferior, 1-cclled, surmounted 

 ^ a disc ; style very long, stigma large, capitate ; ovule pendulous. Fruit, a 

 oerry, crowned by the somewhat enlarged calyx-limb. Seed oblong, albumen* 

 ^minated; cotyledons leafy, crumpled; radicle elongate. — Distrib. Species 2; 

 topical and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



The species with stamens equal in number to the petals in which the structure of 

 he embryo is unknown are here for convenience placed under Marlea; Sir J. Hooker 

 (t7cn. PI, i. 949) has placed them in Alangium, but till the embryo is known their 

 position must be uncertain. 



1. A. Ziamarckii, TAwmtes Unum. 133 ; calyx-tube in the bud not fur- 

 /^t'^^' fruit ellipsoid quite smooth with slight vertical ribs when dry. Dalz. ^ 

 Y^os. Bomb. Fl. 109; Brmid. For. Fl. 250. A. decapetalum, Lamk. Diet. \. 

 yf; DO. Prodr. iii. 203; Wall. Cat. 6884; W. 8^ A. Prodr. 325; Wujht Ic. 

 \ 1*J4 ; Mtq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 774 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 543. A. hexapetalura, 

 ^mk. cy DC. lie; Boxb. Hort. Beng. 38, Fl. Ind. ii. 502; Wall. Cat. 6883; 

 J- ^- A. Prodr. 326; Wight III. t. QQ. A. tomentosum, Lamk. ^- DC. lie. ; 

 *^oll. Cat. 6885. A. sundanum, Ktirz I. c. A. Utifolium, Miq. in Fl. Ilohe- 

 ^ck. No. 7ld.—Rheede Hort. Mai. iv tt. 17, 2ii. 



Throughout India from the N.W. Himalaya to Ceylon and TRyAssERiM; very 

 common.— Distrib. Malaya and South China to the Philippines. East Africa. 

 ' A small tree or rambling shrub, armed or not. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., oblong {A, 





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^^^t rounded, above nearly glabrous with pubescent nerves, beneath with more or 

 ^ess scattered hair and often with tufts of hairs or hollow glands in the axils of the 

 P^mary nerves; petiole \ in., hairy, often villous or woolly. Flowers in small close 

 [^seicles; peduncles pedicels and calyx-tube usually woolly. Cdyx-liuih minutely 

 ^othed. Petals 5-10 usually 6-7, ^-H in. woolly without. Stamens about 20-30. 

 ^/^^ glabrous, uniformly cylindric, stigma large subglobose. Fruit | by f m., black. 

 ^osely piibescent or finally glabi^us ; endocAcp bony.— The examples of A, sundanum 



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