Biospi/ros.] xc. BBENACEiB. (0. B. Clarke.) 656 



few species somewhat hairy. Fruit ellipsoid or suhglobose. Seeds (where 

 known) with equable albumen. 



6. D. montana, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 37, t. 48, and Fl. Ind. ii. 538 ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong pubescent or glabrous base cuneate or obtuse, male fl. in small 

 cymes, calyx small deeply lobed, corolla urceolate glabrous without, stamens 

 16 glabrous. Wall, Cat. 4115, v/pper part of type sheet ; Wight Ic. t. 1^25 ; 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 280 ; Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 107 ; Dalz. ^ Oibs. Srnnb. Fl. 

 142 ; Sedd. For. Man. 143 ; Hiem in Trans. Camb. PhU. Soc. xii. 220 ; Kurz 

 in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 235 ; Brand. For. Fl 296. D. cordifolia, Poxb. 

 Cor. PI. i. 38, t. 50, and Fl. Ind. ii. 538 ; Wall. Cat. 4116 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 230; Wight III. t. 148; Thwaites Enum. 178; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 130; 

 Bedd. For. Man. 143. D. rugosula, Br. P-odr. 626 ; A. BC. P-odr. viii. 229. 

 D. bracteata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 539; A. DC. I. c. 239. D. heterophyUa, Wall. 

 Cat. 4188 ; A. BC. I. c. viii. 230. D. sylvatica, Wall. Cat. 4117, not of Roxb.; 

 of A. BC. Prodr. viii. 231, as to var. ^ only. D. punctata, Dene in Nouv. Ann. 

 Mus. d'ffist. Nat. iii. 467 ; A. BC. I. c. 230. D. Goindu, Bab. in Hook. Kew 

 Joum. iv. Ill ; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 141. D. Waldemarii, Klotzsch in Reis. 

 Pr. Waldem. 101, t. 55. 



From the Himat.aya (from the Eavi eastward, Srandie) to Ceylon and Tenassehim ; 

 common. — Disteib. Birma, Malay Archipelago, Trop. Australia. 



A tree, often spinSus ; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 2^ by 1 in., base cuneate 

 or cordate on the same branch, thin, nerves not elevated, though both primary and 

 reticulating nerves often distinct ; petiole f in. Male fl. : cymes j-f in., pubescent 

 or glabrescent ; peduncles 0-J in. ; bracts ^g in. ; calyx ^— i in., lobes ovate ; corolla 

 J in., shortly lobed. Female flowers solitary ; peduncles |-J in. ; calyx J-J in., 

 deeply 4-fid ; corolla nearly as of the male ; staminodes 4-12 ; ovary 8-celled, cells 

 1-ovuled. Fruit ^-1^ in. diam., globose, glabrous ; lobes of fruiting calyx ^-^ in., 

 ovate, obtuse, foliaceous. Seeds 2-8 ; albumen not ruminated (Kurz says ruminated 

 in the Pegu tree). — D. cordifolia has the female peduncles ^-f in., the leaves and 

 calyx subpersistently pubescent ; D. montana has them glabrescent ; Beddome main- 

 tains the two to be distinct species. , 



7. I>. Xiotus, Linn ; A. BC. Prodr. viii. 228 ; leaves elliptic narrowed 

 upwards membranous at first pubescent beneath, male fl. 2-3 together subsessUe, 

 calyx smaU lobed half-way down, corolla urceolate glabrous without, stamens 

 16 connective pilose. Lamk. III. t. 858 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Oerm. t. 1079 ; Siem 

 in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 223 ; Brand. For. Fl. 297, t. 36 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 83. 



West Punjab; Hazara, alt. 3-6000 ft., Stewart. West Kashmie and Korth of 

 Peshawxje ; not uncommon, Brandia. — Disteib. West Asia. Cultivated in the 

 Mediterranean Region, also (?) in Japan and China. 



Eesembling D. montana ; the leaves are larger (6^ by 2 in. in Stewart's example). 

 — " Fruit much prized by the Affghan tribes " (Brandia) ; hence it may be questioned 

 how far the tree is indigenous in India. 



8. D. Kaki, Linn. f. Suppl. 439 ; leaves ovate obtuse or narrowed at 

 both ends pubescent reticulated beneath, male flowers in small cymes, calyx 

 lobed deeply, corolla urceolate tube short glabrate lobes tomentose without, 

 stamens 16 pilose. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 527 : Orah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 107 : Wight 

 Ic. t. 415 ; A. BC. Prodr. viii. 229, excl. var. y, glabra ; Hiern in Trans. Camb^ 

 Phil. Soc. xii. 227-230, vnthjlg. ; lU. Sortie. 1871, 176, t. 78 ; Kurz in Jmrn. 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 233. D. chinensis, Blume Bijd. 670. D. Sohi-Tse, Bunge 

 Enum. PI. Chin. Bar. 42. D. costata, Rev. Sortie. 1870, ^g. at p. 133. 

 D. Eoxburghii, Rev. Sortie. 1872, tt. 28-29. Embryopteris Kaki, G. Bon, Gen. 



iv. 41. 



