732 MONOECIA GYNANDRIA. Cluytia, 



outer edge of the nectary. Jfectanj saucer-shaped. Column 

 with five expanding- filaments, inserted above its middle, 

 above their insertion three-cleft. Anthers incumbent. Fe- 

 male calyx, corol and nectary as in the male. Germ hairy. 

 Styles three. Stigmas trifid. 



4. C. collina. Willd. iv. 883. Roxh. Corom. pi. ii. JV. 169. 



Leaves sub-sessile, oval, smooth, entire. Flowers axillary, 

 Leaflets of the calyx lanceolate. Petals minute. Capsules 

 tricoccous. 



Tarn. Woodacha-marum. 



Telhif/. Kadishen. 



A small tree, a native of the hilly parts of the Circars. It 

 flowers during the hot season. The seed ripens in December 

 and January. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, the smaller ones 

 orbicular, the larger obovate, entire, smooth, shining, size va- 

 rious. Stipules small, acute,hairy, falling. Floicers s\iort-\)c- 

 duncled, middle size, green, sometimes the male and female 

 ones are mixed in the axills of the same leaves ; sometimes 

 the male flowers are collected by themselves in little bundles 

 in the axills,and the female ones solitary in distinct axills, and 

 sometimes again it happens that they occupy different trees. 

 Bractes several, very minute, surroundmg the insertion of 

 the peduncles. Male calyx split to very near the base, into 

 five segments; divisions tapering, withering. Petals five, 

 very minute, lanceolate. Nectary saucer-formed. Stamens, 

 in the centre of the nectary there is a cylmdric column from 

 which, near the apex, there issue five ascending filaments. 

 Anthers oblong, erect. Pistillum no other than the fore- 

 mentioned column. Female calyx and corol as in the male. 

 J\rectary cup-formed, closely embracing half the germ ; mar- 

 gin slightly notched. Germ superior, ovate. Styles three, 

 each two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Capsule somewhat three- 

 lobed, smooth, very hard, three-celled, six-valved, the size 

 of a nutmeg. Seeds, only one in each cell comes to maturity, 



