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Cornns.2 Lxxii. corxace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 745 



Var. Griffiihii; leaves beneath with spreading hairs.— Bhotan ; Griffith, No. 



Sect. II. Benthamia, Lindl. (gen.) Flowers connate in dense heads 

 suDtended by 4 large white tracts. 



4, C. capitata. Wall, in Boxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^- Wall, i, 434; 

 leaves oblong or elliptic adult closely covered above with minute bairs, calyx- 

 teeth distinct reflexed. Dwi Prodr.'Ul ; Wall. Cat. 467, PL As. Ear. t. 214 ; 



Brand. For. Fl. 253. Benthaniia fragifera, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1579 ; Wiaht 

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From KvLV and Kvmaon to Bhotan, alt. 4000-7000 ft., not rare. 



A small tree, the tender parts densely clothed with minute bicuspidate hairs. 

 Leaves 3^hy }^in., narrowed at both ends, hardly acuminate. Heads hemispherical, 

 8-2 in. wide ; bracts 1 by |- in. Fruiting heads depressed, globose, 1 in. wide, suc- 

 culent, of numerous coalesced pericarps; endocarp about | in., bony, ellipsoid or ob- 

 ovoid, compressed; calyces spreading on all sides from the young fruit heads, 

 ^timately deciduous. 



Var. khasiana; adult leaves glabrous or very nearly so. — Khasia, alt. 5000- 

 ^000 ft., K;tlap;ini ; H. /. ^' T. This variety approaches C. japonica, Thunb. which 

 is closely allied but has the calyx-limb subtruncato. 



4. ZHASTIXXA, Blume. 



Trees, young parts more or less pubescent. Leaves alternate or opposite, 



terminal 



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the flower. Calyx-tube campanulate, pubescent or silky ; limb 5-4-tootbed. 

 Petals 5-4, ovate, leathery, valvate, silky. Stmnens 5-4 ; anthers cordate-ob- 

 ^<5ng. Ovary 1-celIed; disc fleshy ; style cylindric, simple ; ovule 1, pendulous 

 from one side of the cell very near its summit. Drupe ellipsoid or ovoid, 

 crowned bj the calyx-teeth or a scar; putamen grooved down one face; endo- 

 carp protruded inwards down one side. Seed ellipsoid; albumen fleshy; 

 «mbrj-o small, radicle elongate, cotyledons thin, elliptic— Disteib. Species 8 ; 

 S. India and Malava. 



Ijeaves all alternate. 



t Bracts about ^ in., acute. 



1. la. tetrandra, C. B. aarke; bracts caducous, calyit-teeth in^the 

 tud shortly triangular, stamens usually 4. Eursinopetalum tetrandrura, UiffAt 

 "'«. ; Thu-aites Enum. 42. 



Cetlon; Thwaitrs. . „. . , , ,, 



A large tree, foliaire heavy RrecD. Leaves 3^ by U m., elhptic or oborate-oblon^, 

 suddenly obtusely acuminate, narrowed at the base, glabrous, drying green ; petiole 

 H in., minutely pubescent when young. Famck 2-3 in. diam.. branches and ca!y^I- 

 tube with clo.se fulvous pubescence. Calyx-teeth rarely 5. Style -^^ in. Frmt 1 by 

 5 m., almost cylindric, or f by i in. ellipsoid. ,, , • i • -t 



Vah. Thwaitesii; leaves Ij" by J-f in. obtuse turning black in drying, panicle 

 and petals glabrous.-Ceylon; Thwaites. Very different in general appearance from 

 ¥.- tetrandra, but Mr. Thwaites regards it as a variety. 



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' 2. JUr. arborea, ' it^ ^ CVa'-A^ ; "bracts acute persistent ^U after the 

 petals drop, calyx-teeth in the bud triangular^lanceolate, atamens 5. liursmo- 





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