198" 78. URTiCACE^. [Dehregeasia. 



females in small heads. Male fl. Perianth 3-4 -partite, segments 

 valvate in bud. .Stamens 4. Pistillode glabrous or wooll3^ Female 11. 

 Perianth tubular dilated below, mouth 4-toothed, adnate to the 

 1-celled ovary. Ovule erect; stigma tufted. Fruit a collection of 

 small akeues on a fleshy torus, often yellow. Perianth accrescent. 

 Albumen copious. 



D. velutina, Gaud. Bot. Bonite Yoy. t. 90 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 590 ; Brandis 

 "^or. 'PL iOo ; Morocarpiis 1 omj if oU us, liedd. Fl. Sylv. 226, t. 26, f. 5. 

 Conocejjlinlus oiivens, Wight. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 239. Caps?', hurgul, 

 Yern. Konkan and North Kanara, common in evergreen forests. Fl. 

 Nov., Dec. Fr. Dec. Feb. 



Order 79. CASUARINEiE. 

 Leafless trees or shrubs, branchlets cylindric, grooved and 

 jointed, internodes with a ring of small scales (leaves). Flowers 

 unisexual, males in terminal spikes ; female in ovoid heads, bracteate 

 and 2-bracteolate. Male fl. Sepals 1-2, circumciss at the base. 

 Stamen 1, inflexed in bud. Female fl. Ovary minute, 1-celled; stylo 

 2-fid, arms filiform, stigmatose to the base. Ovules 2, collateral. 

 Fruit a small cone, formed of the hardened bracts and bracteoles, 

 enclosing the winged akenes. 



CASUARINA, Forst. 



Characters of the order. 



C. equisetifolia, Forst. Char. Gen. lO."^, f. 5.3 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 598 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 453 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 226. Beef wood of Australia. Sura, M. 

 Planted throughout the presidency : there are large plantations of this 

 tree in North Kanara, near the sea-coast. Fl. Sept. -Oct. Fruit I'ipe 

 June. Flowers dioicous. 



Order 80. SALICINE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Flowers dioicous in 

 lateral catkins similar in both sexes, scales spirally arranged, each 

 bearing 1 flower in its axil Perianth 0. Disc cup-shaped or 

 irregularly formed. Stamens 2 or more. Ovary 1-celled, style short 

 or 0. Ovules few or many on 2-4 placentas, erect, auatropous. 

 Capsule 2-4-valved. Seeds few or many, each with a pencil of 

 long silky hairs, growing from the funicle. Albumen 0. 



SALIX, L. 



Characters as above. Leaves short petioled. Stamens generally 

 2, long exserted. Disc of 1-2, separate glands. Capsule 2-valved, the 

 valves usually rolling back, placentas near the base of the valves- 



S. tetrasperma, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 573 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 626 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 462 ; Bsdd. Fl. Sylv. t. 302 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 220. 

 Bocha, h'tasa, M. ; wallunj, Yern. Throughout the presidency, along 

 streams and river banks. Fl. Oct. Nov. Leaves glaucous beneath. 



