592 MONOECIA TETRANDRIA. Ihtica. 



armed with a few burning white hairs. Stipules cordate, 

 small, caducous. Female.* Spikes axillary, solitary, di- 

 chotomous, with alternate lateral divisions. Flowers numer- 

 ous, all female. Calijx four-parted. Germ ovate, one-seed- 

 ed. Style none. Stigma long, villous, fleshy and tapering. 



21. U. acuminnta. R. 



Sub-arboreous, hairy. Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, 

 entire, acuminate. Female glomerules axiWary, small, globu- 

 lar; in short, once or twice-dichotomous peduncles. 



A small, erect, ramous tree, with dusky bark and hairy 

 branchlets, a native of the forests of Chittagong, where it 

 flowers during the cool season. 



22. U. involucrata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, broad-cordate, downy, sub- 

 entire. Stipules opposite, subulate. Peduncles axillary, 

 drooping, bearing a few female flowers in an involucred 

 head. 



A native of the Malay Islands. In the Botanic garden it 

 is in blossom the whole year, but no male flowers have been 

 found, nor do the seeds ripen. 



23. U. nauclijlora. R. 



Dioecoiis, shrubby, twining. Leaves alternate, cordate, 

 entire ; glomerules globular, compact, the male ones panicled. 



A large, scandent, woody plant, common in the forests of 

 Chittagong, Silhet, and the eastern frontier of Bengal. In 

 the former known by the vernacular name Dolea Sat, and in 

 the latter Lnta Kndum, i. e. scandent JVauclea. Floioers 

 beautiful and fragrant, appearing at various times through 

 the year, but ripening best about or before the beginning of 

 the rains. 



Stem and large branches stout and woody, covered with 



* I have not yet met with the male. 



