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cular or iinequal-obovate, entire or emargiuate, 3-5-nervecl at base. 

 — A high scancleut sarmeutose shrub ; wood porous ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate entire or dentate, 7-9-nerved at cordate base, acute or acu- 

 minate ; flowers in supra-axillary simple or slightly ramified slender 

 elongated racemes ; each 1-bracteate ; pedicel bearing below apex 

 a short 4-6-partite membranous open calycule ^ scarcely removed 

 fi'om perianth, [India.-) 



64. Pyrenacantha Hook.^ — Flowers (nearly of Natsiatum ; 

 dioecious eealyculato ; leaves of perianth 3—5, partly free, valvate. 

 Stamens same in number alternate (in female flower very small and 

 sterile) inserted under the glabrous or hairy ru'liment of the gynce- 

 ceum ; anthers introrse ; connective dorsal glaudulose ; cells at base 

 and apex distinct, longitudinally rimose. Germen 1-locular [ol Natsia- 

 tum) ; stigma sub-sessile discoid multiradiate ; ovules collateral ; micro- 

 pyle introrse superior obturate by hairs springing from funicle. Drupe 

 (nearly of Natsiatum) rather compressed ; putamen outwardly rugu- 

 lose, inwardly spinulescent-verrucose, 1-spermous ; cotyledons of albu- 

 minous embryo large foliaceous, 3-5-nerved at base. — Scandent 

 shrubs or undershi-ubs ; branches slender ; leaves alternate petiolate, 

 pilose or rather scabrous, entire, dentate, or lobed, 3-5-nerved at 

 base; flowers in supra-axillary spikes, with 1, 2 superposed 

 gemmules; male long filiform; female spicato-capitate or by abortion 

 1 -flowered, naked at base.* {Trop. and South Africa, India J') 



65. Chlamydocarya H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious; male..,?; 

 female 4-merous (nearly of Pyrenacantha ) ; leaves of perianth sub- 

 free or connate at base, reflexed at apex. Staminodes 4, alternate. Ger- 

 men sessile, I -1 ocular, 2-ovulate; style short thick tubular afterwards 

 cut in c» linear erect stigmatiferous lobes. Drupe unequally com- 

 pressed, adnate to middle with cupuliform accrescent receptacle, 

 otherwise free and enclosed within and crowned with persistent pori- 



' ''Calycem" (Auctt.), Si/U. i. 373 (not Sciiott). — Sardum Soi.and. 



2 Spec. 1 ? N. herpeticum Ham. U. cit.—ili^. MSS. (ex H. Bx. Procb:). 



Fl. Iiid.-lial. i. p. i. 797 {Naiisiatum). — Walp. * A genus very near Natsiatum, scarcely dif- 



Sep, i. 98. — Sycha pentaiidriis Wall. Cat. fering excepting in its ecalyculate flowers, and 



' Bot. Misc. ii. 107, t. Suppl. 10 ; Niger, 15. perhaps better referred to a section of that 



— ^Endl. Oen. n. 1893. — Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. genus. (II. Bn. Pi-odr. lac. cit.) 



8, XV. 251 (Pi/rmac(intlms).—ll.\\is. Bull. Sue. ' Spec, ahout 6. Harv. Then. Cap. i. 12, t. 23. 



Bot. de Fr. iv. 991; Et. Gin. Euphorb. CC2 ; —So-Kv. Liiiiia:a,Tiid\\.'\(iT.—ll.Ti-s.Ada>miiia, 



Frodr. 18. — Addanthus E:<dl. Gcii. n. C839; x. 270. 



Suppl. ii. 31.— H. B.v. Euphnrb. GG2. —Camiiilla « Adansoiiia, x. 27G ; Prodr. 20. 

 Thunb. Prodr. 31. — Moldcu/iauera Spkeno. 



