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Aucuha.] Lxxii. CORNACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 747 



5, AUCUBA, T/iunk 



, Glabrous branching shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovale or lanceolate, 

 obtusely serrate, leathery, shining, turning black in drying. Floivers small, 

 aicecious, in pseudo-axillary panicles, lurid purple ; bracts inconspicuous ; ped- 

 icels jointed and 2-bracteolate. Male: calyx small, 4-toothed; petals ovate or 

 lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 4 ; disc quadrangular, fleshy ; no rudiment of an 

 ovary. Female; calyx-tube ovoid, limb 4-toothed ; petals as in the male; no 

 rudiments of stamens ; ovary 1-celled, disc fleshy ; style short, thick, stimia 

 capitate ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Bernj ellipsoid, crowned by the calyx- 

 teeth and style. Seed oblong, albumen copious; embryo minute, radicle superior 

 near the summit of the seed.— Disteib. Species 3 or 1, Sikkim, Hongkong, 

 Japan. 



1. A. bimalaica. Hook, /. IlL I£i?n. PL t. 12 ; leaves lanceolate or 

 narrowly lanceolate acuminate, branches of the panicle very pilose. 



Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 6000-9000 ft., Griffith, &c.— Distrib. Japan. 



A stout shrub, 6-12 ft., branching dichotomously. Leaves 8 by 1| in., narrowed at 

 the base, denticulate or serrate ; petiole |-1 in. Paniclea £ in. diam., terminal on 

 very short lateral branches. Fruit ^ by J in., smooth, shining, variable in colour, 

 orange yellow or scarlet. — Yokohama specimens, named A. longifolia in Herb. Hook., 

 are identical with the Indian. A. japonica differs by having rather broader less acu- 

 minate leaves and less hairy panicles. The increase of material renders more probable 

 the suggestion made by Sir J. Hooker L c. that there is but one and that a very vari- 



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6. NTSSA, Linn. 



Trees (or shrubs), innovations silky. Leavis alternate, petioled, entire. 

 Flowers capitate, on axillary peduncles, polygamo-dicecious, 1 or few females 

 and mauy males in a head, each 3-4-bracteolate, or the males irregularly coa- 

 lescing. Male : calvx short, cup-shaped, 5-7-toothed ; petals 5-7, imbri- 

 cate, hairy ; stamens usually 10 (in the Indian species) around a large circular 

 disc ; rudiment of the ovarv or small. Female : calyx-tube campanulate ; 

 limb 5-toothed ; petals or'minute ; no rudiments of stamens ; ovary 1-celled ; 

 style cvlindric, simple or shortly 2-fid ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Bernj oblong 

 or ovoid. Albumen copious ; cotyledons flat, leafy, nearly as broad as the seed. 



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^»t. i. pt. 1. 839. Cei-afostacliys arborea, Blume Bijd. 644 ; 



^ Sikkim, alt. 5000-8000 ft. ; J. B. H., Kurz. Khasia Mts. .• Hf. # T. Cachab ; 

 ^- L. Keenan. MAurABAN, alt. 5000-7000 ft. ; JiTMr^.— Disteib. Java. 



A tree,' 60 ft. Leaves 6 by 2 in., acute at the base, punctate on both nirfaces, 

 adult glabrous beneath, rarely pubescent and chiefly on the nerves; petiole 1 in. 

 ^edmcles 1-U in. more or less pubescent. Caly;c-teeth rounded pubescent and 

 ^'iliato. Kipe/rtti/ i by \ in., ovoid, narrowed upwards to a point, glabrous. 



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