Sebastiania) URTICACE®. - 955 
tically twisted valves. Seeds globose or subglobose ; nae 0; 
testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; oe — ad, 
1 Excaicarta Acatuocua Linn.; F. I. iii. 756; ats B. L. 
472; E. D 5938 
Sundelivons. 
A small, poisonous evergreen tree. Beng. Géngwa, géo 
ghéria; Uriya 
850. Sebastiania Spreng. 
Shrubs, rarely herbs; leaves alternate, penninerved. Flowers 
moneecious, in terminal, axillary, and shea slender racemes ; 
perianth simple; males minute, 1-3 in each bract, females solitary 
or at the base of the raceme. ¢ sie epals connate in a minute, 
membranous, unequally 5-lobed or 5- -partite calyx. Petals 0. 
Disk 0. Stamens 2-4; filaments short, free or nearly so; anther- 
cells contiguous, but distinct, parallel, Pistillode 0. 2? Sepals 
connate in a 3-lobed or 3-partite calyx. Petals 0. Disk 0. Car- 
pels connate in an exserted, 3-celled ovary ; ovules solitary in each 
cell; styles free or connate at the base, entire, revolute or spread- 
ing. ig a globose capsule of 3 cocci, separating from a 
columella ; endoc arp crustaceous. Seeds oblong or subglobose, 
scophichita testa smooth; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, 
flat. 
1907. SeBAsTIANIA CHAMELEA age -Arg.t Fy: B.chivi 416, 
Tragia chamelea F., I. 577. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur 
An erect, slender, doy: branched weed. 
Order CXVI. URTICACE. 
shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 
often ete peace lateral, waa or intrapetiolar connate, 
re sheathing the bud. Flowers cymose or clustered, minute, 
sexual or rarely polygamous, ita crowded on the surface of 
* fleshy, flat, concave or globose receptacle, sometimes hollow and 
closed ; bracts usually small or 0, sometimes 2-4 or more involu- 
crate; bracteoles usually small or 0, sometimes conspicuous. 
Perianth simple, calycine, regular or irregular, equally or 
unequally toothed, lobed or partite, sesemees en imbricate or valvate. 
