Daiisca.~\ LXVII. DATISCACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 657 



tooth ends, flowers fascicled, rarely on short lateral branches and falsely ra- 

 cemed. Lanik. III. t. 823 ; Watt. Cat. 4664 ; A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 410 

 Sibth. FL Grcec. t. 960. D. nepalensis, Don Prodr. 203. 



Temperate and Subtropical Western Himalaya from KASHMIR to NIPAL, alt, 

 1000-6000 ft.; Wallich, Thomson, &c., not very common. DISTEIB. Westward to 

 the Levant. 



Stem 2-6 ft., stout, branching. Lower leaves 1 ft., pinnate; leaflets 7-11, 

 6 by l in., petioluled; upper much smaller and less divided; floral simple, 3 by 

 \\ in. Pedicels often carrying linear bracts. Anthers oblong, rather large ; filaments 

 very short. Styles \ in. Capsule | by less than in. 



2. TETRATCZSLES, J2. Br. 



A large tree. Leaves petioled, ovate, pubescent beneath at least on the 

 nerves. Flmvers dioecious, appearing before the leaves ; males panicled, females 

 in elongate racemes, clustered near the ends of the branchlets. MALE : Calyx- 

 lobes short ; teeth 4, ovate, one or two smaller teeth sometimes added ; petals 0; 

 stamens 4, opposite the calyx-teeth, inserted round a depressed disc ; rudiment 

 of the ovary or quadrangular. FEMALE: Calyx-tube ovoid; teeth 4, short ; 

 pefals ; styles 4, short, stigmas simple somewhat club-shaped. Capsule ovoid, 

 with 4 lines or slight ridges, membranous, opening at the top between the 

 styles. Seeds very many, minute, flattened, ellipsoid, testa very lax and extend- 

 ing much beyond the nucleus as a loose ragged large-reticulated membrane. 



1. T. nudiflora, R. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Ear. 79, t. 17 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 xv. pt. i. 411 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 212 ; Brand. For. FL 245 ; Kurz For. FL 535. 

 T. Grahaniiana, Wight Ic. t. 1956; A. DC. I.e. T. rufinervis, Miq. FL Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. i. 726 -, A. DC. I.e. Anictoclea Grahamiana, Nimmo in Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 252. Indeterminate, Wall. Cat. 9045. 



SIKKIM, alt. 2000 ft. ; J. D. H. WESTERN GHATS from BOMBAY to CEYLON. 

 BTJBMA, TENASSERIM and ANDAMAKS, frequent, Kurz. DISTBIB. Java. 



Attains 100-150 ft. Leaves 5-6 by 4-5 in. roundly ovate, shortly acuminate, 

 serrate or nearly entire, pubescent on both surfaces when young, glabrescent when 

 old, glabrous in Mr. Kurz's Andaman plant except the' nerves beneath. Racemes and 

 panicles pubescent ; flowers sessile or nearly so. bracts minute or 0. Anthers small, 

 roundish ; filaments long. Capstde \ by in., glandular. 



ORDER LXVIII. C ACTEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees ; branches often thickened, striated, or angled. Leaves 

 usually represented by tufts of spines, or by prickles or small tubercles. Flowers 

 solitary, sessile, hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovaiy, 

 lobes 3-30 , small, imbricate. Petals oo , free or shortly united at the base, 

 imbricate. Stamens QO , free^pr adnate to the base of the petals ; filaments 

 filiform. Ovary 1-celled ; st^e filiform or cylindric, stigma 2-oo rayed ; ovules 

 very many on parietal placentas, horizontal. Berry 1-celled, placentas pulpy. 

 Seeds very many, oblong or reniform > albumen plentiful, or scanty, or almost ; 

 embryo straight or curved. DISTRIB. Species 1000, confined to America, ex- 

 cept Khipsalis cassytha. 



OPUNTIA DILLENII, Haw. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 472 ; Cactus indieus, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 

 37, FL Ind. ii. 475; Wight III. 114; an American plant, is naturalised in India, and 

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