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HEMICYCLIA, W. & A. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, entire. Flowers 

 small, tlicecious, apetalous. Males clustered at the nodes. Female 

 Itowers subsolitary. Male fl. Sepals 4-5, imbricate, inner larger. 

 Stamens 4-23, round an orbirular disc, filaments free. Female fl. 

 Disc flat, annular. Ovary obliquely ovoid, 1 -celled ; ovules 2. 

 Fruit with a hard eudocarp. Seeds grooved, arillate. 



Fruit globose, small pisiform, stamens 8-10 ... U. sepiaria. 



Fruit large, crowned with the stigma, ellipsoid. Sta- 

 mens 5-8 ... ... ... ... Il.vemista, 



H. Bepiaria, W. & A. in Edinb. Now Phil. Jour. XIV. 297; Fl. Br. 

 I. 5. 337 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 229 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 198. From the 

 Konkan southwards. Drupe red-coloureJ. 



H. venusta, Thw. in Hook. Jour. Bot. VIII (1855) 272 ; Fl. Br. I. 

 5. 339; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. FL 229; B^dd. FJ. Sylv. 198. "Hills in 

 the Dharwar district," Dalzell ; not seen by me. 



CYCLOSTEMON, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, entire or crenulate. Flowers dioecious, 

 apetalous, axillary. Male fl. Sepals 4-6, broad, imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 4-40, inserted round the margin of the disc, filaments free, 

 erect. Female fl. Ovary 2-4-celled on the small disc, cells 2-ovuled 

 Fruit indehiscent. Seeds with a caruncle, albumen fleshy. 



C. confertiflorus, Hookf. Fl. Br. I. 5. 341. In the evergreen forests 

 near the Devimone ghiit of North Kdnara. Fl. C.S. 



BISCHOFIA, Blume. 



A large tree. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, leaflets crenate. Flow- 

 ers in axillary panicles, dioicous, apetalous. Calyx of S-scgments. 

 Male fl. Sepals 5, concave, imbricating. Disc 0. Stamens 5. Pis- 

 tillode short. Female fl. Ovary 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; styles linear, 

 entire. Fruit a globose drupe. 



B. javanica, Blume Bijd. 1168 ; Brandis For. Fl. 446; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 259 ; Stylodiscus tri/oliahis, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 235. Bol^e, 

 Vern. In the evergreen forests of North Kanara, common on the Snpa 

 gbats. Fl. Mch.-Apl. Fr. ripe next Apl. 



APOROSA, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate entire. Flowers dioecious, apetalous ; 

 males in short dense spikes ; females sessile or in short few-flower- 

 ed spikes. Male fl. Sepals 4. Stamens 2-5. Female fl. Ovary 

 2-celled; stigmas small, plumose; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit 

 dehiscent ; epicarp fleshy. Seeds plano-convex, albumen fleshy. 



A. Lindleyana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 349 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 286 ; Sccpa Lmdleyana, Wight; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 236. Sidi, K. Common in the evergreen forests of the Konkan and 

 North Kanara. Fl. C.S. Fr. ripe, June. 



