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graciles, elongati, subangulati, leviter puberuli, bifidi. Flores dioici. 
Pedunculus communis masculus satis gracilis, angulatus, brevissime 
puberulus, 8-12 cent. longus, 12-30-florus; pedicelli erecto-patuli, - 
crassiusculi, 1-6 mill. longi; bracteolæ nulle vel 1-4 mill. longs. 
Calycis tubus sublinearis, longitudinaliter striatus, apice valde dila- 
tatus, breviter denseque puberulus ; dentes patuli, lineares, 3 mill. 
longi. Capitulum antherarum subglobosum, 2?/,-3 mill. crassum. 
Peduneulus femineus gracilis, 2 cent. longus. Calycis tubus 4 cent. 
longus, apice leviter dilatatus. Ovarium sublineare, puberulum. Fruc- 
tus glaber, lævis, fulvus, 5-6 cent. longus, 3-3 */, cent. crassus. Semina 
fulva, lævia, subnitida, subquinquangularia, basi leviter appendicu- 
lata, apice subemarginata, 10 mill.longa, 10-11 mill.lata, 3 mill. 
crassa, testa tenui, dura. — 
Iu Sumatra occidentali ad Ajer mantjoer, prov. Padang, alt. 360 m. 
(Beccari n. 802 et 802 bis in herb. suo). 
32. T. dicaelosperma (C. B. Clarke! in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind., 
2, p. 609); foliis integris, regulariter ovatis, basi leviter emarginatis, 
apice breviter acuminatis, margine integerrimis vel sparsim minutis- 
sime dentieulatis, utrinque breviter pubescentibus ; racemis masculis 
ebracteatis vel subebracteatis; fructu globoso; seminibus triloculari- 
bus, loculis lateralibus vacuis. — T. reniformis Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. 1871, part. 2, p. 57 et in Flora, 1871, p. 294 (non Miq.). 
Caulis eracilis, ramosus, elongatus, angulato-suleatus, puberulus. 
Petiolus satis gracilis, striatus, brevissime denseque villosus, 3-8 cent. 
longus. Folia supra læte viridia, subtus cinerea, membranacea, 10-15- 
cent. longa, 6-11 cent. lata; sinus basilaris late rotundatus, 1-l'/, 
cent. profundus. Cirrhi robustiusculi, elongati, angulato-sulcati, 
puberuli, bifidi. Flores dioici. Pedunculus communis masculus graci- 
lis, striatus, puberulus, 5-7 cent. longus, apice 7-10-florus; pedicelli 
patuli, subfiliformes, */,-2 cent. longi; bracteolæ nulle vel vix */, mill. 
longie. Calycis tubus sublinearis, apice valde dilatatus, brevissime den- 
seque puberulus, 2-2 !/, cent. longus, apice 3-4 mill. et ad medium vix 
l mill. latus; dentes patuli, subulati, 2 mill. longi. Capitulum anthe- 
rarum subglobosum, 3 mill. crassum. Pedunculus femineus subfilifor- 
mis, 2-3 cent. longus. Ovarium oblongum, brevissime denseque villo- 
sum. Fructus pubescens, longitudinaliter 10-vittatus, 4-5 cent. cras- 
sus. Semina pallide einerea, leviter rugulosa, subquadrangularia, 
basi appendiculata, 7-8 mill. longa, 8-9 mill. lata, 3.mill. erassa, testa 
tenui, fragile, 
