754 DIOECIA TRIANDRIA, Osyris. 
and moist places among the Circar mountains, Flowering 
time the cold season. 
Trunk erect but short, as thick as a man’s bod y. Head 
large, very ramous. Branchlets twiggy. Leaves alternate, 
short-petioled, lanceolar, fine-pointed, most minutely serrate, 
smooth above, whitish below, from two to four inches long. 
Mate. Ament filiform, its peduncle often leaf-bearing, issu- 
ing from the dry, smooth, brown involucre-like scales of the 
bud. Scales small, cup-formed, with a long depending tongue- 
like lip, giving to the whole the appearance of a slipper. 
Filaments from six to eight, retrofracted, three or four times 
longer than the tongue of the perianth. Anthers twin, singly 
orbicular and grooved. FEMALE. ments shorter than in 
the male ; perianth the same. Germ long-pedicelled. Style 
as long as the capsule, Stigmas two, spreading. Capsule cor- 
date, opening from the apex, one-celled, four-seeded. Seeds 
oblong, involved in much fine white cotton; which does not 
adhere to them, | but is inserted with them into the bottom of 
the capsule. 
2 S. Babylonica. Willd. iv. 671. 
Arboreous, Branchlets pendulous. Leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, serrate, smooth, glaucous underneath, Male flowers 
diandrous. 
A native of the middle parts of Asia, In Bengal it blos- 
soms during the hot season. 
The scales of the ament in the male, form something likea 
facia hairy cup which is not more than one-fourth the 
length of the filaments. On each side, without and within, 
the insertion of the filaments, is an oblong, yellow, smooth 
gland, rather shorter than the scales, 
DIOECIA TRIANDRIA, 
Z OSYRIS. Schreb. gén. N. 1497. a 
Male calyx trifid, Corot none, Female con in the 
