604 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [{December, 1908. 
commonly more or less ig — blade membranous, lanceo- 
late, 25 to 60 mm. (1—23 in.) long, ’ commonly 3 to 4 times as 
long as its oreatest breadth ; ‘larger leaves 15 rf 20, rarely 25 mm 
and rather obtusely serrate ; tip acute or subacuminate ; upper 
surface dark-green and glabrous, lower surface paler and sparsely 
stellately hairy. 
nflorescence terminal on the branches, moncecious, protogy- 
nous, female below, male upwards ; axis sparsely stellately hairy. 
Female flowers two to six in each inflorescence, alternate, some- 
times accompanied by a male cyme reduced to a single flower, 
monochlamydeous; sepals 5, inserted on a very short swollen 
— rather distant from each other, lanceolate, about 2 mm, 
ong, green, persistent ; disc consisting of 5 smal poo eae glands 
opposite the sepals ; pistil 3-carpellary, sessile ; ovary 3-locular, 
ellipsoidal, in flower about 2 mm. long, densely stellately hairy ; 
Styles 3, bifid to about the middle, —— about 1 mm. long ; 
ovules | in each cell, orators Male flowers in clusters of 
clusters 12 to in number, gree arranged 
1 3 to 9 m e 
rs stalked ; pedicels 1—2 mm. long, of a pale-orange hue ; 
fren 5, valyate in aestivation, her ous, ovate, subacute, 
green n below, more or less e upwards, glabrous or pet so, 
ng ; 
base with white hairs ; disc of 5 small spherical orange: -coloured 
glands alternating with the petals ; stamens about 15; filaments 
inflexed in bud, terete, about 2 mm. long, slightly attenuated up- 
wards ; author orbicular in outline, “subintrorsely dehiscing, 
about 1 mm. in diameter, white, connective ovate; pollen-grain 
spherical, smooth, 
Fruit tricoccous, subellipsoidal in outline, triquetrous, shal- 
wly 3-grooved, brownish-green to greenish-brown, more or less 
diellatale hairy ; pericarp dehiscing ‘into three cocci, cocci finally 
splitting up ventrally and often also. dorsally ; epicarp herbaceous ; 
ae crustaceous, white, thinner ventrally. 
s pendulous ; caruncle forming a shallow, oblique, rather 
thin, ponds white, somewhat dentate cap; testa crustaceous, 
covered with a whitish external layer, otherwise minutely reticu- 
lately wrinkled, brownish-black ear besite lighter brown on the inner 
surface. 
no authentic specimens of Morung’s plant are available 
in India, it appears to me advisable to reproduce here Morung 
and Britton’s original description of Morung’s ee from the 
Journal of the New York Academy of Sciences, loc. cz 
i dad at to 1 m. in height. Stem iuscous, branching 
, lepidote, the scales deeply cut by 15 to 20 
prenoaore eatiaging: hairs. Leaves dark-green, alternate, ovate- 
