966 BENGAL PLANTS. [Sarcochlamys. 
4-lobed limb, ultimately accrescent, ene bane the mouth 
pushed to one side. Ovary oblique; ovule erect; stigma small, 
sessile, penicillate. Fruit an oblique ac ‘isu bee eat in the 
fleshy perianth; pericarp membranous. Seed with hard testa; 
te. 
2. SARCOCHLAMYS PULCHERRIMA Gand. ; RK Bs I. v. 588; E. D. 
Urtica pulcherrima F. I. i 
E. Bengal, Mymensingh ; ops. eaten 
An evergreen large shrub or small tree. 
863. Villebrunea Gaud. 
Trees or shrubs ; a petioled, alternate, entire or crenulate, 
sree or 8-nerved at base; stipules partly connate, intra- 
tiolar. Flowers actos densely, capitately fascicled, fascicles 
aa or laxly _ bracts small or linear; bracteoles some- 
S 
times connate, cup 3 Sepals 4, connate in a 4-partite 
erianth, segments ovate -acute, valvate or slightly imbricate, 
subglobose in bud. mens 4, Pistillode obovate-clavate. P 
Sepals connate in a oe perianth, adnate to the ovary ; mou h 
narr’ i h € 
herent perianth; ovule erect; stigma sessile, small or discoid, 
with penicillate margin. ruit a crustaceous fe closely 
—- to the slightly fleshy perianth. Seed straight, often 
uminate ; testa thinly membranous ; albumen tie or seanty; 
soit ovate or bro. 
1933. VILLEBRUNEA INTEGRIFOLIA Gaud.; F. B. I. v. 589; E. D. 
v. 133. 
Chittagong. 
An evergreen tree. Vernac. Ban rhea. 
864. Debregeasia Gaud. 
Shrubs; leaves alternate, petioled, serrate-crenate, 3-nerved ; 
stipules connate, intrapetiolar, 2-fid. Flowers moncecious or 
dicecious, in dense, globose, egte or spicate, sessile clusters 3 
bracts of male clusters scarious. <3 Sepals connate in a 4-partite, 
rarely 3- or 5-partite periant ie lobes valvate. Bhieibet 4, rarely 
3or5. Pistillode glabrous or woolly at base. ¢ Sepals connate 
in an ovoid or obovoid perianth, with narrowed and minutely 
toothed mouth, succulent in fruit. Ovary straight, included ; 
ovule erect ; stigma sessile, penicillate. Fruit an achene, at first 
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