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bracts, arranged in spikes, catkin-like or slender and elongated ; 

 female solitary or 2-4 together in tin* axil of a leafy bract ; 

 female bracts increasing in fruit, solitary or few at the base of 

 the male spikes, sometimes in a distinct spike ; male and andro- 

 gynous spikes mostly axilhirv ; female axillary, lateral, or 

 terminal, solitary or clustered. Disk wanting. Male flowers : 

 Calyx closed in the bud, valvately 4-parted in flowering. Stamen- 

 ^(-IG) ; filaments free; anther-cells free, hanging from the apex 

 of the filament, usually flexuose, worm-like, opening at the apex. 

 Xo rudiment of ovary. Female flowers : Sepals 3-4, imbricate. 

 very small. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, free, thread-like, generally 

 much branched ; ovules solitary. Capsule splitting up into three 

 I'-valved cocci. Seeds without a caruncle. 



Species, about 370, widely dispersed through the tropics, a 

 very few beyond the tropics in America. 



Inflorescence 2-sexual (see also A. virgata). 



Leaves roundish to oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 cni. 1. 

 Perennial herb, stems to 1 ft., woody often 

 below 1 . A. dm mwdri folia . 



Leaves ovate acuminate, 4-8 cm. 1. Shrub, 2-4 ft. 2. A. cuspidata. 

 Inflorescence 1-sexual. 



Female bracts few. Shrub 1-6 ft., dioecious 3. A. scabrosa. 



Female bracts many. Plants monoecious. 

 Female spike terminal. Annual herbs. 



Female spike plume-like ; bract with long 



bristle-like apex 4. A. alopccnr< 



Female spike not plume-like; bract to 2 nun. 1. 5. A. corchorifolin. 

 Female spike axillary. Shrubs or small trees. 

 Fruiting bracts 5--9 mm. 1. 



Leaves creuate-serrulate. 



Young twigs, petioles, and inflorescence 

 puberulous. Fruiting bracts to - 

 mm. 1., notched to or % of its length 



into triangular-deltoid teeth 0. A. riraat>i. 



Glabrous. Fruiting bract cleft below 



middle. 

 Fruiting bract with lanceolate-lin 



lobes 7. A.I;*' 



Fruiting bract with oblong obtuse lobes 3. A. ynti>n<.-n. 

 Leaves >hvngly serrate. Young twig-, 

 and inflorescence densely 



piil'c-srviit ''inmic- 



Fruiting bract less than 5 mm. 1 >-lliptii. 



1. A. ehamsBdrifolia J/W//. Jr//. /// in'. Prodr. xv. ///. 2, 



379 !'SG<>) (exc!. vai-s.) ; herb, pcn-nnial, oit^n woody lx-l..w ; 

 leaves ro.indish to oblong-lanceolate, !-.'> cm. 1. : infln- VX-I-IM 

 _ - . :.-il ; r,-!>. ,s////.. Ant.iv. :J 17 : CV/"/""""- Fl. S.U.S. c<l. ."., \'2S ; 

 it- Hntcli!n*n !H K>i>- Hull. 1918, _'. A. indica var. 



