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magnifying glass. Nerves 3-5 markedly scabrous on the under- 

 surface, having a gland or two on each nerve deeply seated. Lobes 

 broad, sometimes entire, sometimes again lobed, and with segments 

 narrow, linear-lanceolate. Margin slightly serrate or dentate : 

 Lobe-divisions sometimes deep. 



Petioles also having a tendency to be winding or twisted 

 1-2 inches long; channelled; several large glands at the apex of 

 petiole. 



Stipules single^ small, axillary. 



Flowers. — White, delicate in the female, stout in the male, 

 fading soon after opening over-night or early morning. The plant 

 blossoms during hot and rainy seasons, says Roxburgh, but I have 

 seen male flowers in November and December in Thana in the 

 Judge's garden. This Thana plant is leafless now (March), and will 

 continue so until the next monsoons. 



Male FLOWBKS.-^Eacemed, large, white, most delicately fringed 

 with long white branched bifid or trifid filaments. Racemes axillary, 

 longer than the leaves, solitary, with a smaller few-flowered second 

 Pe(^imcZ«s sometimes paired, stout, 5-6 inches long. Bracts oi the 

 male racemes large, foleacious, sheathing the flower from a broad 

 base many times larger than the very short pedicels; ovate; fringed j 

 viscid; covered on the outside with dark green glandular spots of 

 the size of linseed or millet seed. Oalyx 1 — ] ^ inch, bract-like ; seg- 

 ments ovate, deeply toothed or serrate ; tomentose. Corolla 4 inches 

 in diameter, hypercrateriform, having the appearance of a flat open 

 parasol with its fimbriae hanging down in beautiful tapers. Petals 

 marked yellow at the base, cuneate. Filaments triadelphous. 

 Anthers syngenesious, very anfractuose. 



Female Floweks.— Solitary, smaller and more delicately fimbriated 

 than the male ; axillary ; peduncle not so stout as in the male. 

 Calyx-teeth of the female flower less marked. Calyx*tube in female 

 short. Petals according to some nearly destitute of fimbrise 

 Corolla smaller than that of the male. 



Fruit.'— 2-4 inches in diameter, globose, smooth, "of the size of 

 an ordinary orange. When ripe of a bright deep red colour replete 

 with a dirty looking dark greenish pulp in which the seeds 

 nestle. 



