flowers dioecious. Staminale flower ol 3 sep. and 3 stamens; carpellarv with 3 

 enlarged papillose stigmas. Fruit a drupe, taken by deer, with one characteristically 

 rugose 'stone' (necklaces), sclerocarp very hard, splitting on germination, i-seeded. 



Excoecaria Agallocha, a small evergreen halophytic tree of Sundribans and 

 tidal forest, 40 ft. ; flowers minute : staminate in yellowish-green catkins with long 

 stamens 3 ; carpellary 3-nierous. Caiisule to i in. diam., 3-lobed, and separating 

 into 3 cocci from central axis. Latex blistering. 



Cleistanthus eoUinus, a small tree of S. India, on dry rocky ground, as 

 coppice. Flowers yellowish-green in small axillai}' clusters. Capsule | in., woody 

 with 3 seeds. 



Phyllanthus Embliea, common tree of mixed deciduous forest with light 

 feathery foliage ; leaves small and pectinated on D.V. twigs, looking like iiinnate 

 leaves when young, and shed as phyllomorphs. Staminate flower 6-parted with 

 6-lobed disc. Carpellary with 2 ovules in each loculus. Fruit globose, fleshy, -f in. 

 with 6-ridged sclerocarp and 6 seeds. Fruits collected as Emblic IMyrobalans. 



Biixaceae (6 30), based on Biixiis of S. Europe, differs in floral organization, 

 also diclinous (monoecious), apetalous ; evergreen, with decussate leaves and reduced 

 axillary racemes: staminal flower dimerous with 4 stamens; carpellary terminal, of 

 3 carpels with 3 divergent stigma-lobes ; 2 ovules suspended in each loculus, raphe 

 external. Fruit a dry capsule, discharging 6 seeds ; seed with a small caruncle : 

 cf. Biixus setnperi'inns (Hort.) and B. Wallichiana, very similar in Hill-forest, 

 Himal\a, at 4000 ft. 



Platanaceae (1/6), based on Plalanus. Plane, now generally accepted as 

 petaloid with minute petals, diclinous with reduced construction. 



P. oricntaUs, a large deciduous tree, cult., NW. Himalya ; leaves deeply 5-7 

 lobed : fruiting capitula spherical, i^ in. diam., 5-6 in one system. Achenes hairy, 

 i-seeded, wind-dispersed. 



Heniandiaceae (4/24), a small series of trees with anomalous characters, 

 apetalous, the reduced flow-ers with irregular number of parts. The anthers dehisce 

 by 2 valves, and the ovary is inferior with i suspended ovule ; commonly included 

 near Lauraceae (Engler, 1891). 



Gyrocarpus americanus, a deciduous soft-wooded tree of sea-coast throughout 

 the tropics : flowers in dense clusters on panicled systems of many staminate and few 

 hermaphrodite : the latter of 4-parted perianth and sessile stigma. In fruit 2 larger 

 perianth-segments extend as leafy lobes, 2-3 in. long, at the end of the ovoid velvety 

 fruit, I in,, to constitute spinning-mechanism suggestive of a Dipterocarp. 



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