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420. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Casearia. 
ment, and white ; the inferior one membranaceous. Pe- 
risperm conform to the seed. Embryo straight. Cotyle- 
dons two, cordate, green, Radicle directly opposite to the 
umbilicus, centripetal. 
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3. C. ovata. Willd. 2. 629. 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, bifarious, ovate-oblong, 
serrulate. Flowers axillary, crowded, octandrous. Ca- 
lyx five-leaved, 
Stamens and nectaries distinct. 
Anavinga, Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 49. 
A pretty large tree, with an erect trunk, and numerous - 
spreading and drooping branches, and branchlets. Found | 
in the garden of Mr. Cowper on the banks of the Hoogly 
just below Calcutta, and was in full blossom in March, . 
the old leaves were then falling, and the new ones just be- . 
ginning to appear. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, drooping, ovate-oblong, and . 
oblong. serrulate, downy underneath.  Petioles short, 
round, villous, Stipules small, villous, caducous. Flowers — 
axillary, or from the old axills of the new leafless branch-- 
lets, much crowded into globular heads, small, of a pale | 
green, | Peduncles short, one-flowered, surrounded at their — 
insertions with numerous, short, chaffy, villous involucres; 
these, when the flowers are removed, form a round chatty » 
receptacle, like that of many of the syngenesious flower 
Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets ovate, villous.. Corol none. — 
Nectaries eight subclayate, ciliate. bodies, distinct from 
and alternate with the antheriferous filaments, and. about 
half their length, Filaments eight, subulate, rather 
shorter than the calyx. Anthers two-lobed, on the an-) 
thers or the filaments being touched, or otherways iataeis. She 
ted, they immediately expand and approach the base ' 
the stigma, by means of an articulation at the base ‘ of 
the filament, which admits of this motion. Germ above — 
