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ovate-acuminate, 1—1°5 cm. long; flowers ‘ velvety dark blue and 
pink’ (Kunstler). Perianth puberulous, oblong and inflated at base, 
1—5 cm. long, narrowed into a short tube 5 mm. long and then 
expanded in 2 lips; the upper short rounded, 3 mm. long; the lower 
acuminate, 2—2°5 em. long. Stamens 6, sessile, inserted around the 
style-column ; anther-cells 2, very distinct. Style-column short, 
expanded in a 6-lobed stigmatic disk with short conical tips. Capsule 
oblong, obtuse, 4 cm. long, 6-ribbed, the ribs winged when young. 
King M.S. in Herb. Cale. 
Prnane : Government Hill, Curtis 330!; at Waterfall, G. King! 
at 150 m. in dense forest, King’s Collector (Kunstler) 1453 ! 
Family XCIX.—CHLORANTHACEAs. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, usually aromatic. Leaves opposite, usually 
toothed, the petioles often connate in a sheath; stipules small, sub- 
ulate, usually on the margin of the sheath. Flowers in terminal or 
pseudo-axillary spikes, heads or panicles ; unisexual or the male and 
female cohering and hermaphrodite supported by a bract ; 3 flowers 
without perianth, 2 with a 3-toothed limb adnate to the ovary. 
Stamens 1 or 3, connate ; filaments very short and thick; anthers 
2-celled, or, if 3 stamens, the side ones I-celled. Ovary 1-celled ; style 
very short; ovule 1, orthotropous, pendulous from the top of the 
cavity. Fruit a small, ovoid or globose, drupe; exocarp fleshy 
endocarp crustaceous. Seed pendulous; testa membranous; albumen 
copious, fleshy ; embryo minute; cotyledons divaricate or scarcely 
distinct ; radicle inferior.—Disirib. Genera 3, tropical and subtropi- 
eal; but not African. 
1. CHLORANTHUS, Swartz. 
Perennial herbs or shrubs, the stems articulate at the nodes. 
Flowers in terminal simple or panicled spikes ; hermaphrodite, the ¢ 
and 2 connate on a bract at the base; perianth 0. Stamens 1 or 3 
confluent; if 3, the central anther 2-celled, the side ones 1-celled. 
Ovary naked; stigma subsessile, truncate——Distris. About 10 
species, Eastern Asiatic. 
Stamens 3, connate by their connectives; leaves finely serrate. 1. C. officinalis 
Stamen 1, 4-celled on a broad connective; leaves coarsely 
serrate wa i ..2. C.brachystachys. 
1. CHLORANTHUS OFFICINALIS, Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. 79 (1827). 
- A small erect glabrous undershrub reaching 1—2 m. in height. 
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