Aiioula.'] Lxxii. coENACEJi. (0. B. Clarke.) 747 



6. AVC17BA,, Thunb. 



Glabrous brancfhing shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate or lanceolate, 

 obtusely serrate, leathery, shining, turning black in drying. Flowers small, 

 dioecious, in pseudo-axiUary panicles, lurid purple ; bracts inconspicuous ; ped- 

 icels jointed and 2-bracteolate. Male : calyx small, 4-toothed ; petals ovate or 

 lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 4 ; disc, quadrangular, fleshy ; no rudimert of an 

 ovary. Female : calyx-tube ovoid, limb 4-toothed ; petals as in the male ; no 

 rudiments of stamens ; ovary 1-celled, disc fleshy ; style short, thick, stigma 

 capitate : ovule solitary, pendulous. Serty ellipsoid, crowned by the calyx- 

 teeth and style, Seed oblong, albumen copious ; embryo minute, radicle superior 

 near the summit of the seed.— Disikib. Species 3 or 1, SikMm, Hongkong, 

 Japan. 



1. A. blmalalca, Hook. f. III. Sim. PI. t. 12 ; leaves lanceolate or 

 narrowly lanceolate acuminate, branches of the panicle very pilose. 



SiKKiM and BHOTA.N, alt. 6000-9000 ft., Griffith, &c. — Distrib. Japan. 



A stout shrub, 6-12 ft., branching dichotomously. Leaves 8 by Ij in., narrowedat 

 the base, denticulate or serrate ; petiole |-1 in. Panicles J in. diam., terminal on 

 very short lateral branches. Fruit ^ by ^ in., smooth, shining, variable in colour, 

 orange yellow or scarlet. — Yokohama specimens, named A, longifoUa in Herb. Hook., 

 are identical with the Indian. A. jafonica differs by having rather broader less acu- 

 minate leaves and less hairy panicles. The increase of material renders more probable 

 the suggestion made by Sir J. Hooker I. c. that there is but one and that a very vari- 

 able species of Awynha. 



6. NTSSA, Unn. 



Trees (or shrubs), innovations silky. Leaves alternate, petioled, entire. 

 Flomers capitate, on axillary peduncles, polygaino-dioecious, 1 or few females 

 and many males in a head, each 3-4-bracteolate, or the males irregxdarly coa- 

 lescing. Male : calyx short, cup-shaped, 5--7-toothed ; petals 5-7, imbri- 

 cate, hairy ; stamens usually 10 (in the Indian species) around a large circular 

 disc ; rudiment of the ovary or small. Female : calyx-tube campanulate ; 

 limb 5-toothed ; petals or minute ; no rudiments of stamens ; ovary 1-celled ; 

 style cylindric, simple or shortly 2-fid ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Berry oblong 

 or o'void. Alhumen copious ; cotyledons flat, leafy, nearly as broad as the seed,^ 

 — DisTEiB. Species 5-6, in N. America, and from Sikkim to Java. 



1. N. sesslliflora, Ilookf. in Gen. PI. i. 952 ; leaves oblong acuminate, 

 flowers sessile. Daphniphyllopsis capitata, Kwz For. Fl. i. 240 ; and in Joum. 

 As. Sob. 1875, part ii. 201, with fig. Ilex daphnephylloides, Kwrz in Joum. As. 

 Soe. 1870, pt. ii. 72. Agathisanthes javanica, Blume Bijd. 645 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. i. 839. Deratostachys arborea, Blume Bijd. 644 ; Miq. I. c. 



Sikkim, alt. 6000-8000 ft. ; J. J). H., Kurz. Khasia Mrs. . H. f. # T. Caohab ; 

 if. L. Keenan. Martaban, alt. 5000-7000 ft. ; Xwra.— Distrib. Java. 



A tree, 60 ft. Leaves 6 by 2 in., atute at the- base, punctate on both surfaces, 

 adult glabrous beneath, rarely pubescent and chiefly on the nerves ; petiole 1 in. 

 , Pedmwles I-I4 in., more or less pubescent. Calyx-teeth rounded, pubescent and 

 ciliate. '&\^e fruit \\>j\ in., ovoid, narrowed upwards to a point, glabrous. 



