ARENA REST GDN Am a 
a a RN 
Adelia. DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 849 
with its very finely dentate margin, Germ bristly, three, 
rarely four-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 
top of the axis, Siyles three, recurved and bifid with the 
segments, also recurved and shaggy. Capsule round, size 
of a nutmeg, completely armed with innumerable, hispid, 
acute, rather inoffensive light brown bristles, three-celled, six- 
valved; valves hard like the shell of most nuts. Seed soli- 
tary, attached to the top of the axis, and the attachment em- 
braced by a crimson, fleshy gland, or aril ; size of a grain 
of black pepper, but compressed, Integuments two; exte- 
rior thin, brittle, highly polished, black, inner a brown, thin 
membrane. Perisperm none, or most trifling, Embryo in- 
- verse. Cotyledons conform to the seed, oily. Radicle oval, 
superior, 
2. A. nereifolia. R. : 
Shrubby. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate. Spikes 
axillary, solitary. 
Teling. Taniki. 
Mal, Katt-alluree. 
A native of Coromandel, where it flowers during the hot 
season. 
3. A. cordifolia. R. : 
Leaves alternate, long-petioled, round, cordate, entire. 
Male spikes axillary, Anthers four-valved. 
A native of the Moluccas, 
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