Dalisca.] ixTii. datisoacej). (0. B. Clarke.) 65? 



liotJi ends, flowers fasoieled, rarely on short lateral branches and felsely ra- 

 cemed. Lamk. HI. t. 823 ; Wall. Cat. 4664 ; A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 410 ; 

 "' ■' , Fl. Gresc. t. 960. D. nepalensia, Don B-odr. 203. 



Temperate and Subtropical Western Himalaya from Kashhib to Nipal, alt, 

 1000-6000 ft.; WaUieh, Thomson, &c., not yery common. — Distbib. Westward to 

 the Levant. 



Stem 2-6 ft., stout, branching. Lower leaves 1 ft., pinnate; leaflets 7-11, 

 6 by 1 J in., petioluled ; upper much smaller and less divided ; floral simple, 3 by 

 1^ in. Pedicels often carrying linear bracts. AntJiers oblong, rather large ; filaments 

 very short. Styles J in. Capsule | by less than J in. 



2. TETRAMEXiES, S. Br. 



A large tree. Leaves petioled, ovate, pubescent beneath at least on the 

 nerves. Flowers dioecious, appearing before the leaves ; males panicled, females 

 in elongate racemes, clustered near tiie ends of the branchlets. Maxe : Calyx- 

 lobes short ; teeth 4, ovate, one or two smaller teeth sometimes added ; petals 0$ 

 stamens 4, oppodte the calyx-teeth, inserted round a depressed disc ; rudiment 

 of the ovary or quadrangular. . Eemaxe: Oalyx-tube ovoid; teeth 4, short ; 

 petals 0; styles 4, short, stigmas simple somewhat club-shaped. Capmle ovoid^ 

 with 4 lines or slight ridges, membranous, opening at the top between the 

 styles. Seeds very many, minute, flattened, ellipsoid, testa very lax and extend- 

 ing much beyond the nucleus as a loose ragged large-reticulated membrane. 



1, T. nudlflora, M. Br. in Berm. PI. Jav. Bar. 79, t. 17 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 IV, pt. i. 411 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 212 ; Brand. For. Fl. 245 ; Kwz For. Fl. 635. 

 T. Grahamiana, Wight le. t. 1966; A. DC. I.e. T. rufinervis, itftj-. Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. i. pt. i. 726 ; A. DC. I.e. Anictoclea Grahamiana, Nimmo in Ghrdh, Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 252.— Indetenninata, W^aU. Cat. 9046. 



Sqekim, alt. 2000 ft. ; J. V. H. Western Ghats from Bombat to Ceylon. 

 Btiema, Tenasseeoi and Andamans, frequent, Ktire. — ^Disteib. Java. 



Attains 100-lSO ft. Leaves S-6 by 4-5 in. roundly ovate, shortly acuminate, 

 serrate or nearly entire, pubescent on both surfaces when young, glabrescent when 

 old, glabrous in Mr. Kurz's Andaman plant except the'nerves beneath. Saceimes and 

 panicles pubescent ; flowers sessile or nearly so, bracts minute or 0. Anthers small, 

 roundish ; filaments long. Cwpside | by ^ in., glandulax. 



Ordee LXVni. CACTEH:. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees ; branches often thickened, striated, or angled. Leaves- 

 usually represented by tufts of spines, or by prickles or small tubercles. Flowers 

 solitary, sessile, hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx-tvhe adnate to the ovary, 

 lobes 3-00 , smaU, imbricate. Petals oo , free or shortly united at the base,, 

 imbricate. Stamens oo , free or adnate to the base of the petals ; filaments 

 filiform. Ovary 1-ceUed ; style filiform or cylindric, stigma 2-oo rayed ; ovules 

 very many on parietal placentas, horizontal. Berry 1-ceUed, placentas pulpy. 

 iSseA very many, oblong or reniform.; aibijmen plentiful, or scanty, or almost ; 

 embryo straight or curved. — Disteib. Species 1000, confined to America, ex- 

 cept BJapsalis eassytha. 



Okjntia Dillenii, Ham,; DC. Prodn:ya. i12; Cactus indious, Eoxb. Horf. Seng. 

 37, Fl,Ind. ii. 476; Wight HI. 114; an American plant, is naturalised in India, and 

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