Phyllantluis. monoecia monadelphia. 673 



Cicca disticha. Willd. iv. 332. 



Neli pouli. Rlieed. Mai. iii. t. 47, 48. 



Cheramela. Rumph, Amb, vii. t, 33.y. 2. 



Beng. Loila, Nor?. 



Hind. Ilurpurori, also Chelmeri. 



Avenhoa acida. Linn, sp.pl. G13. 



Eur. Clieramella. 



Telinrf. Riissa Userekee. 



Aneleg^ant small tree, common in gardens, where it is rear- 

 ed for the sake of the fruit ; I never saw it wild. It flowers 

 about thebeoinninff of the hot season. 



Trunk tolerably straight, but short. Branches numerous, 

 spreading in every direction. Bark ash-coloured, deeply 

 cracked. Leaves approximated, numerous, scattered round 

 the extremities of the branchlets, pinnate, often flower- bear- 

 ing, from one to two feet long. Leajlets numerous, alternate, 

 short-petiolate ; the largest about the middle of the leaf, the 

 lowermost nearly orbicular, gradually lengthening to ob- 

 long ; smooth, entire, waved ; from one to three inches long, 

 and from one to one and a half broad ; sometimes there are 

 male flowers in the ax ills of the exterior leaflets. Stipules of 

 the petioles three-fold, those of the petiolets two, very minute. 

 Petioles round, smooth, tapering, sometimes ending in a 

 short, glomerate raceme of male flowers. Racemes numerous, 

 terminal; axillary and from the old germs over the naked 

 branchlets. Peduncles flexuose, round, smooth. Flowers 

 exceedingly numerous, small, reddish, collected into globu- 

 lar heads over the raceme ; also frequently in the axil Is of the 

 leaflets, and sometimes round the common petioles below the 

 leaflets; male, female and hermaphrodite mixe(]. Bractes 

 three-fold, at every bundle of flowers. Male floivers by fur 

 the most numerous. Calyx of four orbicular, spreading, con- 

 cave leaflets. Corol none. Nectary four glands between 

 the insertions of the petals. Filaments four, erect, shorter 

 than the corol, anthers two-lobed. Hermaphrodite and Je- 

 male jiowers mixed with the male ones, but fewer. Corol and 



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