760 DIOECIA TETRANDRIA. Trophis, 
always two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Drupe minute, succulent, 
one-celled. Nut one-celled, very small, 
The berries are eaten by the natives when ripe. The wood 
serves for various uses. 
4, S. lanceolaria. R. 
Shrubby, smooth. Leaves lanceolar. Stipules ensiform. 
Spikes terminal, filiform; male flowers diandrous. 
_ Avery bushy, large shrub, void of all sorts of pubescence ; 
a native of Chittagong. In the Botanic garden it blossoms 
during the rainy season, 
CATURUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1449. 
_ Male calyx none, Corol trifid. Female ealyx three or 
four-parted; Corol none. Styles three. Capsule tricoccous. 
C. spiciflorus. Willd. iv. 714. 
Shrubby. Leaves long-petioled, cordate, serrate. Spikes 
pendulous, longer than the leaves. 
Cauda-felis agrestis, Rumph, Amb, iv. t. 37.f. 1. the male, 
and f. 2, the female. 
_ Acalypha hispida, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 61. JS. 1. would be 
a tolerable representation of the female, if the spikes were 
longer, and pendulous. 
__, Exclude Watta-tali, Rheed, Mal. v. t. 32, which is more 
: like my Rottlera dicocea, and totally different froma Ca- 
ERE ind SRE AS 
DIOECIA TETRANDBIA. 
_ <TROPHIS. Schreb. gen. N. 1502. 
‘Mare. Ament imbricated, globular. Calyx four-leaved 
or none. Femaxe. Calys four-leaved or none. Germ supe- 
rior, one-celled, one-seeded; attachment superior. Berry one- 
seeded, Embryo inverse, curved, no perisperm. 
