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leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong-acuminate, coriaceous, 

 smooth; male flowers amentaceous, diandrous, with a 4-leaved peri- 

 gonium ; female flowers in very short, axillary racemes ; perigonium 



4 to 6-leaved, in a double series ; fruit size of a pea, generally 

 2-celled, of which one is abortive. Very common in the Southern 

 Concan. This is very probably No. 1346 of Graham's Catalogue. 



CXXII. STILAGINACE^:. 

 1. ANTIDESMA, Burm. 



1. A LANCEOLATUM, Tulasne, Ann. Des. Soc. Nat. xv, 195. 

 Shrubby, smooth ; leaves long-lanceolate ; stipules ensiform ; spikes 

 terminal, filiform; male flowers 3 to 4-androus (4 seems to be the 

 normal number) ; stigmas also very irregular, there being 3 to 4 or 



5 divisions ; flowers in March. Tulkut Ghaut and Virdee. Wight 

 Ic. 766. 



2. A DIANDRUM, Tulasne loc. cit. A small tree ; leaves short- 

 petioled, oval or oblong, acuminate entire, smooth ; 2 to 4 inches 

 long, and 1 to 2 broad ; stipules narrow-lanceolate ; spikes terminal, 

 filiform, many-flowered ; flowers very small ; male calyx obtusely 

 4-toothed ; styles 2, spreading, one of them always 2-cleft ; drupe 

 minute, succulent, 1 -celled. At Vingorla; flowers in the rains. 

 Syn. Stilago diandra, Willd. iv, 714. 



3. A PUBESCENS, Willd. iv, 763. A small tree ; leaves alter- 

 nate, short-petioled, oval, entire, downy, 2 to 4 inches long, 2 to 3 

 broad ; stipules subulate ; spikes numerous, terminal, and from the 

 exterior axils, those of the male tree much longer and more slender ; 

 flowers very small, greenish-yellow ; calyx 5-leaved ; leaflets ovate, 

 hairy ; filaments 5, spreading, longer than the calyx ; drupe minute ; 

 nut one-seeded, eatable. On the hills near Vingorla ; flowers in 

 June. Wight Ic. 821. 



4. A PANICULATUM, Willd. iv, 764. A small tree ; leaves short- 

 petioled, round-oval, often emarginate, entire, villous, 1 to 3 inches 

 long, and nearly as broad ; spikes terminal and axillary, panicled, 

 downy ; flowers numerous, minute, sessile, greenish-yellow ; male 

 calyx 5-leaved, female calyx 5-toothed ; stigma of 5 stellate divi- 

 sions ; berry small, round, smooth, dark-purple when ripe, of a 

 pleasant, subacid taste. This differs from the last in having much 

 broader and rounder leaves, and branched, not simple spikes. At 

 Vingorla; flowers in June. Wight Ic. 820. 



CXXIII. ULMACE^E. 



1. CELTIS. 

 1. C ROXBURGHII, Planch. Ann. Soc. Nat., ser. iii, t. x, p 302. 



