748 LXXII. CORNACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Toricellia. 



7. TORICELLIA, DC. 



A small tree, branches thick. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, deciduous, 

 broadly cordate, acute, sharply serrate; petiole sheathing at base. Flowers 

 small, white, dioecious, numerous in pendulous panicles ; pedicels short, bracteo- 

 late, in the female jointed under the flower, in the male not. MALE : calyx-tube 

 short, lobes generally 5 ; petals 5, oblong, acuminate, induplicate-valvate ; sta- 

 mens usually 5; disc flat; rudiment of ovary or of 1-3 small bristles. 

 FEMALE ; calyx-tube ovoid ; limb minute, 3-5-toothed ; petals and stamens ; 

 ovary 3-5-celled, disc inconspicuous ; style very short, stigmas 3-5, cylindric ; 

 ovule 1 solitary pendulous in each cell. Drupe small, purple, obliquely ovoid, 

 crowned by the stigmas, 4-celled, 1-seeded. Seed linear, curved ; albumen 

 fleshy; embryo minute. 



1. T. tilieefolia, DC. Prodr. iv. 257; Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. 361, t. 41. 

 Sambucus tiliaBfolia, Watt. Cat. 483. 



NIPAL; Wallick. SIKKIM, alt. 6000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN; Griffith. 



Leaves 6 in. diam., adult glabrous or slightly pubescent on the nerves beneath, 

 membranoiis, palmately nerved from the base ; petiole often 3-4 in. Male panicle 

 1 ft., very compound, minutely pubescent or glabrous, with a few scattered linear 

 bracts J in. : fern, sometimes nearly as long as the male, but much less dense ami 

 with far fewer more scattered flowers. Fruit | in., ovoid, glabrous. 



