730 MONOECIA GYNANDRIA. Vluytia. 



five, inserted into the abortive style. Female calyx and co- 

 rol as in the male. Styles three, two-eleft. Capsule ttilo- 

 cular. Seed solitary. 



I.e. semper jlor ens. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves sub-lanceolar, acute. Male flow- 

 ers in axillary, and lateral glomerules ; the female ones few 

 and apetalous. 



A small, erect, ramous shrub ; a native of Silhet, where it 

 is in flower and seed the whole year round. 



Stem erect, short, soon dividing into a few erect, and spread- 

 ing branchlets. Dark of the old ligneous parts dark brown, 

 and scabrous; that of the tender shoots, densely clothed with 

 short hairs. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, sub-lanceolar, 

 tapering most toward the base and there somewhat cordate, 

 with a very few hairs on the rib and veins, all the rest smooth, 

 about six inches long, by two broad. Stipules small and su- 

 bulate. Flowers short-pedicelled, forming crowded, round- 

 ish glomerules over the leafless branches, chiefly axillary, 

 the male ones very numerous and purple, the female ones 

 large, few and green. Male calyx, five unequal, spreading^ 

 small oval leaflets. Petals five, round, obovate, spreading, 

 of a deep purple. Nectary, five glands alternate with the 

 insertion of the petals. Filaments single, columnar. Anthers 

 six, placed in a stellate form round the apex of the column, 

 and open on the under side. Female calyx five-leaved. 

 Corol none. Nectary, a pentagonal ring round the base of 

 the germ. Germ superior, roundish, hairy, three-celled, with 

 one ovulum in each, attached to the axis above its middle. 

 Styles three, bifid, recurved. Capsule the size of a large pea, 

 of an olive colour, villous, tricoccous. Seeds, perisperm and 

 eml^ryo, as in the order. 



2. C oblonyijolia. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, acute, 

 smooth, glaucous underneath. Flowers sessile, crowded, 

 axillary. Petals obcordate. tridentate. 



