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long, above sparingly beset with stiff white bristles, otherwise 
glabrous or nearly so ; flowers unknown ; peduncles solitary from 
fruit broadly ovate, leafy, acute, nearly an inch long, densely 
(outside more sparingly) appressed long-bristly ; capsules 3-coccous, 
the cocci the size of a large pea, appressed long- and stiff-hirsute, 
woody, supported by the enlarged 6-leafed calyx ; seeds globular, 
velvety, — dark-brown mottled. 
Hazs.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban east of 
Tounghoo- —Fr, Apr.-May.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
CNESMONE, BI. 
Flowers monoecious. Calyx 3-cleft or -parted, the male valvate, 
the female imbricate in the bud. Petals and disk none. Stamens 
3, free, round an ovary-rudiment, alternating with the calyx-seg- 
ments ; anthers 2-rimose, the connective long-exserted beyond the 
anther-cells and jointed-incurved. Ovary 3-celled, with a solitary 
ovule in each cell; styles very thick, connate below, simple, 
trigonous, toothed-marginated, erect, and forming, so to say, an 
obovoid head larger than the ovary itself. Capsule dry, 3-coccous. 
Seeds almost globular, with a jagged arillus.—Twining shrubs, with 
simple alternate leaves. Flowers in rather short racemes with a 
few ee flowers at their base, at the end of axillary shoots. 
1. C. Javanica, Bl.—An evergreen large twining shrub, all 
parts daecnly and softly but stingingly pubescent ; leaves oblong- 
ovate, cordate at the 3- or nearly 5-nerved base, on a deneels pubes- 
cent petiole } to 14 in. long, shortly acuminate, 3-5 n. long, ser- 
Has =a the tropical oe ats 7 Dipset. —Fi. 3 Seong p. 
DALECHAMPIA, Plum. 
Flowers of both sexes included in a 2-leaved compressed in- 
volucre, Calyx in males 4-5-parted, vatvate in females, 5-12- 
