730 MONORCIA GYNANDRIA. Cluytia. 
five, inserted into the abortive style, Female calyx and co- 
rol as in the male. Styles three, two-cleft. Capsule trilo- 
cular. Seed solitary. 
1, C. semperflorens, R. 
- Shrubby, erect. Leaves sub-laneeolar, acute. Male flow- 
ers in axillary, and lateral glomerules; the female ones few 
and apetalous. 
A small, erect, ramous shrub ; a native of Silhet, where it 
is in flower and seed the whole year round. 
Siem erect, short, soon dividing into a few erect, and spread 
ing branchlets, Bark of the old ligneous parts dark brown, 
and scabrous; that of the tender shoots, densely clothed with 
short hairs, Leaves alternate, short-petioled, sub-lanceolar, 
tapering most toward the base and there somewhat cordate, 
with a very few hairs on the rib and veins, all the rest smooth, 
about six inches long, by two broad. Stipules small and su- 
_bulate. Flowers short-pedicelled, forming crowded, round- 
ish glomerules over the leafless branches, chiefly axillary, 
the male ones very numerous and purple, the female ones 
- large, few and green. Male calyz, five unequal, spreading, 
small oval leaflets, Petals five, round, obovate, spreading, 
of a deep purple. Nectary, five glands alternate with the 
insertion of the petals, Filaments single, columnar. Anthers 
six, placed in a stellate form round the apex of the column, 
and open on the under side. Female calyx five-leaved. 
Corol none, Nectary, a pentagonal ring round the base of 
the germ. Germ superior, roundish, hairy, three-celled, with 
one ovulum in each, attached to the axis above its middle. 
Styles three, bifid, recurved. Capsule the size of a large pea, 
of an olive colour, villous, tricoceous, Seeds, perisperm and 
embryo, as in the order, 
2.6. oblongifolia, R. 
Arboreous, Leaves alternate, short- “petioled, Oe acute, 
“smooth, glaucous underneath. Flowers sessile, crowded, : 
waglary. Petals obcordate, tridentate. 
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