12. Ahtiiesma.] 22. EUPKOBBIACEJE. 



globose often on a broad connective. Ovary 1- rarely more- 

 celled, stigmas 2-4, 2-fid. Ovules 2 pendulous. Frt. a small 

 more or less compressed drupe. Seed -with broad flat cotyle- 

 dons. 

 St. 2 (rarely 3). Fls. pedicelled. Calvi 4-loW . 1. diandrum. 



St. 3-4. 

 Calyx 3-4-fid. Fls. shortly pedicelled . . . .2. acuminatum. 

 Calyx of M. shortly 4-lobed, of F. entire. M. fl. 



sessiie ......... 3. Bunius. 



St. 5 (4-7). Spikes wooly. Fls. sessile. Calyx 5*7- 



partite ..*..-,. , . 4 Ghaessmbilla. 



1. A. diandrum, Both. Mata-ara. Mata-sura, K. ; 

 Matha arak', S. ; Amti, Kharw. ; Mutta, Beng. Arntna sag. 

 Mai Pahari. 



A shrub with obovate-lanceolate or somewhat rhomboidly 

 elliptical leaves usually glabrous rarely h" long, minute green 

 flowers in mostly simple spikes ; M. 1-2" long, F. often 3" in 

 fruit. Fr. sub-globose £"- r V diam. with a slightly com- 

 pressed and rugose keeled, seed. 



Common, chiefly in the valleys, throughout the area. Fl May-June. 

 Fr. Nov.-Jany. Leaves turn red from Jany. -March and then fall. 



Shoots usually pubescent, and a form occurs in Singbhum with the 

 leaves permanently sub-tomentose beneath. L. acute or acuminate with 

 cnneate base, and 4-5 prs. slender sec. n., usually li-3£" by f-l£" 

 Vise lobed glabrous or pilose. 



The young leaves make an excellent spinach. The fruits are eaten. 



2. A. acuminatum, Wall, 



A small tree with oblong to elliptic usually caudate- 

 acuminate nearly glabrous leaves about 6'' by 2", minute fls. 

 in panicled pilose spikes 2-5" long. Fr. ell. -£" long crowned 

 by the style. 



Along streams in the Saranda forests. Evergreen ; new leaves and flg. 

 in May. 



Branchlets pilose or tomentose. L. very dark green, sometimes 12" 

 long or only 3-4* at time of flowering with generally rounded base and 

 •7-12 prs. of inarching sec. n. which are pubescent beneath. 



Fls. unequally pedicelled. M. sep. 3-4 glabrous outside. Disc fleshj 

 glabrous 3-4-anguJar. St. 3-4, long. Pistillode distinct. 



826 



