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fleshy, firmly adnate to the nut-like achene. Albumen copious. 
Unerlalens elliptical, almost longer than the cylindrical radicle.— 
Shrubs or small trees, with entire or crenulate penni- or 3-nerved 
leaves. Stipules connate, 2-cleft. Flowers minute, the female 
ones supported by a fleshy cup (consisting of several connate bracts 
ing and finally surrounding the ripe fruit), in small pedun- 
ea clusters or heads, solitary or in = Sidaciamnen or forked, short, 
imple cymes in the axils of the le 
fon penninerved, entire, softly at cate O. acuminata. 
Leaves-penninerved, crenate-serrate Mi wards. the set usually 
OUR along the nerves bene . O. sylvatica. 
. 0. acuminata (Ur vioa aoiilachie, Roubii Villebrunea ap- 
ae Wedd.).—An evergreen tree (20—254. (?) +1—13), 
often branched already from the base, the branchlets more or less 
pubescent ; leaves — broadly lanceolate to oblong, on a more 
or less pubescent petiole 4-3 in. long, abruptly and thinly acumi- 
nate, penninerved, obtuse or acute at the base, 5-10 in. long, thick- 
_membranous, entire, , and white- dotted above, more or less 
softly pubescent or almost glabrous beneath ; flowers minute, 
sessile, minutely hispid, robot, 9 souaeere dichotomously branched 
eymes in the axils of the leaves 
Has.—Chittagong ; Ava hills. 
Remarxs.—This is the bun-rhea of the Assamese, which yields the fibre 
called China-grass-cloth, 
2. 0. sylvatica, Miq.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 225, t. 26, f. 4.— 
An evergreen small tree, 18-25 ft. high, the branchlets pubescent ; 
leaves obovate- -oblong to elliptically oblong and lanceolate, on a 
strong pubescent petiole 4-1] in. long, Cts or acute at the entire 
base, upwards crenate-serrulate, 4-6 in. long, abruptly acuminate, 
membranous, penninerved, glabrous and white-dotted above, more 
or less pubescent along the nerves beneath ; flowers minute, sessile, 
minutely hispid, in small heads, forming slender, ey forked or 
— slightly pubescent cymes in the the leaves. 
Martaban, in deserted toungyas of the eee at 2,000 ft. eleva- 
hoy Brandis.) 
MOROCARPUS, Sieb. & Zuce. 
Flowers monoecious and’ dioecious. Males: perianth 4- rarely 
3-parted, the segments ovate, shortly acuminate, vidvate: 7 in the 
bud. Stamens as many as ’perianth-lobes. Ovary rudimentary. 
Females : perianth ventricose-tubular, somewhat adnate to the 
ovary, 4-toothed at the contracted oo Ovary obovate-oblong, 
with a plies almost erect ovule; stigma sessile, penicillate-capi- 
tate. Fruit berry-like, obovate, sees dof the fleshy outer peri- 
