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mouth contracted ; lobes subconnivent. Germen included in calyx 

 stipitate broadly elliptical oblique ; ovule suberect ; funicle short 

 ascending ; stigma sessile penicillate-capitate persistent. Achene 

 oblique smooth, laxly included in accrete fleshy succulent calyx ; 

 seed...? — A shrub; leaves alternate, 3-ribbed serrulate, hoary 

 below ; cystoliths punctiform hardly conspicuous ; stipules 2, 

 connate to 1, axillary or axillary-lateral 2-fid ; flowers glomerate- 

 spicate ; spikes axillary solitary or paired ; males lax ; females very 

 dense (India 1 ). 



21? Poikilospermum Zipp. 2 — "Flowers dioecious. Male calyx 

 campanulate, 4-fid ; lobes ovate, valvate. Stamens 4. Eudiment of 

 gynseceum obconical glabrous. Female calyx obconical campanu- 

 late ; mouth very minutely 4-denticulate. Germen altogether 

 included in calyx; stigma sessile capitellate peltate, minutely 

 papillose. Achene baccate, embraced at base by finally accrete 

 fleshy cupulate calyx. Seed of the same form ; albumen scanty. — 

 A shrub; leaves alternate, 3-ribbed; stipules axillary; flowers 

 frequently dichotomously cymose " 3 (Amboijna Islands, Ceram 4 ). 



22 ? Laurea Gaudich. 5 — Flowers dioecious. Segments of male 

 calyx 4, rather obtuse puberulous, imbricate ? Stamens 4. Rudi- 

 ment of gynseceum lanceolate, hairy at base, rather long-acuminate- 

 attenuate hispid at apex. Female flower...? — A rather glabrous 

 shrub (aspect of Piper) ; leaves opposite petiolate, slightly unequal 

 in same pair, inequilateral entire, 3-ribbed ; cystoliths (?) ; stipules 

 axillary entire, deciduous ; male flowers in very dense spikes, simple 

 or subsimple, axillary, 2-nate 6 (Guiana'). 



23. Cypholophus Wedd. 3 — Flowers monoecious or dioecious. 

 Male cal} r x 4 -partite ; segments mucronate or bare under apex, 



1 Spec. 1. S. pulckerrima Gaudich., Ioc. 

 cit. — MiQ., Fl. Incl. Bat., i. p. ii. 2fil. — Urtica 

 pulcherrima Roxb., FL Ind., iii. 587. 



2 Ex Miq,, iu Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 203. — 

 Wedd., Frodr., 235 15 . 



3 A genus differing, according to Miq., from 

 Sarcochlamys in its regular female calyx. 



4 Spec. 1. P. amboinense Zipp., Ioc. cit. 



6 Toy. Coq., Bot., t. 88. — Wedd., Monogr., 

 443, t. 12, D ; Frodr., 235 14 . 



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6 A genus too imperfectly known, placed 

 among SarcocJilamgdere, from a certain similarity 

 to Sarcochlamys. (Wedd.) 



7 Spec. 1. L. tiluefolia Gaudich., Ioc. cit. — < 

 Piper tiliafolium Desvx., in Ham. Frodr. Fl. 

 Ind. Occ, 4. — Mtq., Syst. Piperac, 551. — C. 

 DC, Frodr., xvi. 379, 388. 



8 Wedd., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, i. 198; 

 Monogr., 433, t. 12, C ; Frodr., 235 9 . 



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