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three-valved, opening from the apex ; the edge of the valves 
elevated. Seeds generally six, oblong, attached to the 
middle of the valves, enveloped in a little succulent aril, 
which dries into Geertner’s partial cells. Infeguments two ; 
the exterior one thin and white ; the interior one firmer and 
brownish, Perisperm conform to the seed, oily. Embryo 
green, shorter than the perisperm, straight. Cotyledons 
_ cordate. Radicle cylindric, centrifugal. 
2. C. glomerata. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves bifarious, ovate-lanceolate, acutely 
serrulate, smooth. Flowers axillary ; peduncled, crowded, 
octandrous. Capsules berried, two-valved, five-seeded. 
Loorjoor the vernacular name ‘in Silhet where it is found 
indigenous in the forests. Flowering in December, and the 
seed ripening in March. 
Trunk short, dividing soon into many, nearly erect, 
smooth branches and branchlets. Leaves bifarious, short- 
petioled, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sharply serru- 
late, smooth on both sides, from two to four inches long, 
and one and a half broad. Stipules a brown downy scale, 
on each side of the insertion of theleaves. Flowers axil- 
lary, very numerous, small, ofa greenish-yellow, each with 
adistinct peduncle. Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Nec- 
tary of eight hairy filaments, alternate with, and shorter 
than those of the stamina. Filaments eight, incurved. 
Anthers cordate. Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, con- 
taining a few, from four to six, ovula attached oppo- 
Sitely to the inside of the cell near the middle. Style 
rather shorter than the stamina. Stigma large, subpeltate. 
Capsule berried, oblong, fleshy, somewhat ventricose, the 
Size of a very’small olive, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds 
generally from three to six, attached in the germ, nearly 
tound, invested in a small portion ofa red, soft aril. In-— 
_ teguments two, the exterior one thin, ie ag 
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