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JCanne/z-itti-kanni, Rheed. mat, x. 9. tab. 5. 



Seng. Chhota-manda. 



A ramous shrubby parasitic, like the two species already describ- 

 ed; grows common on trees throughout Bengal. Flowers all the year. 



Leaves generally opposite, though sometimes alternate, and also 

 three-fold, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, entire, of a thick leathe- 

 ry texture, almost veinless ; from two to three inches long. — Racemes, 

 or rather spikes, axillary, or between the leaves, or from the old axils, 

 generally solitary, though sometimes there are two or even three to- 

 gether, much shorter than the leaves. Floaers opposite, from three to 

 six pairs on the spike, sessile, small, greenish oiange colour. — Bractes 

 no other than the perianth of the fruit. — Calyx. Perianth of the fruit 

 inferior, two-leaved, the under and exterior cordate, the inner two- 

 toothed ; that of the flower no other than the circular margin of the 

 pit which receives the flower. — Carol one-petall-d ; tube gibbous, six- 

 sided. Border six-parted, divisions alike, and cut equally deep, re- 

 flected. — Filament* six, erect, inserted into the base of the divisions 

 of the carol. — Germ ovute. Style the length of the stamens. Sti<> ma, 

 large, glandular, uaveled. — Berry infeiior, round-oval, size of a pea, 

 smooth, when ripe the pulp is yellow, clammy, and elastic, which 

 makes them adhere to the branches of trees where they germinate, 

 resting on three permanent caiyciform bractes and crowned with a 

 ring where the corol stood round the permanent base of the style, 

 one-celled. — Seed's solitary, conform to the berry. Integument single, 

 white, tough and clammy, marked with twelve whitish striae. — Peris- 

 jyerm conform to the seed, six-grooved, green. — Embryo central, in- 

 verse, straight, pale green, nearly as long as the perisperm. — Coty- 

 ledons two, ltuear-oblong — Plumula minute; Radicle sub-cylindricj 

 length of the cotyledons, superior. 



A. Ij.ferrugineus, R. 



Young shoots as well as the underside of the oval leaves long, 

 slender, letrandrous, regular; Jloner, fruit, and pedicels clothed with 

 much ferruginous pubescence. 



