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small, functionally diodcious, arranged in panicled spiles, bracteoles 

 connate. Cfaivr-iube very short ; teeth 1< ng, Bubulate, elongating 

 in fruit, capillary and plumose. Corolla small, tube very short ; lol es 

 1, subequal. Stamen* l. equal, distant, exEerted in the male flowersj 

 included iii the female flowers ; filaments naked, anthers orbicular, 

 cells confluent. Di$k uniform. Ovary 4-partite, style 2-fi<L, pro- 

 trudedinthe female flowers, Nutlets L-4, obovoid, ury, with hairy 

 tip>, basal scar small. — A single Bpecies, c< nfined to India and Burma. 



C. oppositifolia, 8m. Bxot. Bot. it. HI, t. 1L~>; Hoxh. Fl. Ind. iii, 26 ; 



F. B. 1. t'r, 642; Watt K. J). ,- Kanjilnl For. FL 270 ; Gamble Man. Ind. 



Timb. 547; Collet t FI. Biml.388; train Beng. I'l h51 ; CooU Fl- Bond*. 

 ii. 458; Brandii Ind. Trees 515. C. teraifolia, tioah. ; Fl. Ind. iii, 25.— 

 Vera. Pa)i^ra, Linda ( Delira Dun). 



An erect tomentose rnuch-bianched sluub 4-10 fl. high: branches stout 

 subqnadrangular, grooved, usually in whorls of three. Leaves rugose, 

 m ftly hairy on both surfaces, crowded towards the ends of the branches, 

 opposite or in verticils of three. 4-6 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 crenulate or serrulate, base acute, both surfaces softly hairy, petioles 

 1-1 in. long. Spikes axillary or in panicles towards the ends i f the 

 branches, often 3-nately arranged, erect, cylindrical, Blender when in 

 flower, becoming much stouter in fruit : bracts solitary, ^o in. long, 

 linear, pubescent ; bracteoles many, ^o in. long, connate at the ba*e. 

 Calyx 5-paitite ,Vi in. long; teeth subulate, plumose with white hairs, 

 elongate in fruit and often with purple tips. Corolla T \, in. long, white. 

 Nutlets usually solitary , 3 \, in. long, oblong-obovoid, hairy at the tip. 



Dehra Dun ami Siwalik range, in ravines and by water-courses extending 

 along the Sub-Himalnyan tracts ami eastwards to Gorakhpur. 

 Flowers in Jan. and Feb. Di&trib. Himalaya up to 4,000 ft. from 

 the Indus to Bhutan, and more or less throughout the hdly parts of 

 Cent., W. and S. India, extending to Tenasserim, Upper Buima and 

 China. The wood is used for making gunpowder-charcoal, and the 

 leaves are applied to wounds and bruises. 



11. MICROMERIA, Benth. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 649. 



Herbs or andershrubs. Leaves usually small, entire or toothed. 

 Flowers small ; whorls few- or many-flowered, in axillary or terminal 

 spikes, rarely, panicled. Calyx 13-nerved, 5-toothed or 2-lipped. 

 Corolla 2-lipped, tul e straight; upper lip entire or emarginate, 

 nattiah ; lower spreading, 3-iid. Stamen* didynamous, the lower 

 pair longer, ascending, incurved and with diverging apices; anther- 

 cells distinct, parallel, at length diverging, << nnei live usually thicken- 

 e !. Ovary 4-lobed ; style 2-lol ed, the 161 es I qual or the upper very 



