117. PROTEACE.E. 



Stems pubescent or glabrous. Spikes pubescent from the axils of scale-leaves. 

 •Outer perianth-lobes small orbicular ciliate, inner oblong glabrous valvate. 

 St. 3-seriate. First series petaloid with 2 cells adnata to linear face ; second 

 .series smaller, similar, dilated below ; third series hastate with 2 glands on the 

 very short filament. Staminodes 3 fleshy. Ovary tapering to a minute capitellate 

 stigma. Berry •25---4" diam. including the white succulent accrescent perianth. 



ft is noticeable that Cassi/tha and Cascuta are seldom found in the same locality 



FAM. 116. HERNANDIACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, often peltately attached and pal- 

 mately-nerved, simple entire or lobed exstipulate leaves ; usually 

 abounding in oil-glands and sometimes also with cystoliths and capi- 

 tate hairs. Flowers small in axillary or pseudo-terminal cymes or 

 panicles, 2-sexual or monoecious, regular, with 3-many- (rarely 2-) 

 partite perianth with the valvate tepals usually evidently 2-seriate. 

 Stamens as many as and opposite to the outer tepals, 1 -seriate, with 

 2-celled anthers opening bj^ lateral recurved valves, glands or stami- 

 nodes sometimes present alternating with the stamens. Ovary 

 inferior, 1 -celled, with one pendulous anatropous ovule. Fruit 

 sometimes winged, indehiscent. 



1. GYROCARPUS, J acq. 

 Leaves clustered towards the ends of the branches. Flowers 

 1 -sexual, clustered in cymose panicles without bracts. Males very 

 numerous, perianth 4-7-partite, stamens 4-7 with as many alter- 

 nating clavate glands. Female or hermaphrodite flowers few, tepals 

 2 accrescent and coriaceous in fruit. Style 0. Fruit a bonj^ nut 

 crowned by the spathulate wing-like tepals. Seed with convolute 

 cotyledons. 



1. G. americanus, Jacquin. Syn. G. Jacquini, Roxb. 



A tall tree with brown branches and pubescent or tomentose shoots. 

 Leaves broadly ovate acuminate, with base cordate rounded or shortly 

 cuneate, in young plants deeply lobed, 3-5-5", principal nerves 3 of 

 which lateral usually soon forked, sec. n. 2-3. Petioles 2-5". Flowers 

 white, densely hairy in cymes 2-3" broad and several together from 

 the ends of the twigs on long pubescent peduncles. Fruit globose 

 wrinkled •5--75", wings striate pubescent 2-3" obcuneate or oblan- 

 ceolate with rounded apex. 



Mais of Orissa, very rare (only once seen), Gamble ! Fl. Jan.-Feb. Fr. April. 

 Decid. Dec-Jan. 

 Bark smooth, shining, greenish white. 



FAM. 117. PROTEACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, with alternate, rarely subopposite or 

 whorled, simple or variously divided, mostly coriaceous, exstipulate 

 leaves. Flowers often showy, 2-sexual, single or paired in the axils 

 of bracts, usually in spikes, racemes, heads or umbels, often irregular. 

 Perianth inferior, segments 4, at first valvately cohering in a cylindric 



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