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GENUS I. ACROTREMA. 
Polyandria Trigynia. Ser: Sys: 
‘Deriv. From Akros, summit, and Trema, a hole, alluding to the 
terminal pores of the anthers. 
Gey. Cuar. Herbaceous low plants: leaves radical, oblonga 
ovate, toothed, with rough hairs on both sides: petioles dilated at 
the margin: peduncles radical, hairy, 8~12-flowered: flowers pedi- 
cellaté, racemose: stamens 15:.atithers adnate, opening by pores 
at the summit: ovaries 3, distinct, each terminated with a style and 
stigma: ovules 2 in each-cell: carpels 3, capsulai. 
(1) A. costarum. (Jack.) 
Ident. Jack. Mal. Mise.—Hook. Bot. Misc. II. 82.—-Hook. & 
Thoms, fi. Ind. I. p. 65: 
Syn. <A. Wightianum, W. & 4. prod. I. p. 6.-—Ill. I. p. 9. 
Sprc. Cuar. Leaves sprinkled with rigid hairs, otherwise gla- 
brous, dentato-serrate, pale beneath: petioles very short, auricled, 
sheathing : scapes (with. the pedicels and talyxes) hairy, flower« 
bearing above the middle: flowers yellow. 
Padenaveram, in Travancore. 
(2) A. Annottianum. (RA. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Ill. p. 9.—Hook. & Thoms.’ flor. Ind. I. p. 64, 
Engrav. Wight’s IN. t. 3. 
Segc. Cuan. Leaves sprinkled with rigid hairs, obovate, sharply 
toothed, cordate at the base, long-ciliated and covered with lax hairs 
on both sides especially above the nerves, otherwise glabrous: pe- 
fiolés broad-winged, sheathing: racemés axillary or in the axils of 
the fallen leaf: bracts ovate, entire or 2-lobed, membranaceous, 
brown, with lax hairs, at length nearly glabrous: pedicels with the 
calyxes slightly hirsute: flowers yellow. 
Malabar and Courtallum, flowering in August. 
GENUS IV. DELIMA. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Delimo, to file. The leaves are used for polishing 
wood. 
Gen. Cuar. Flowers hermaphrodite: sepals 5: petals 4~55 
ovary solitary, somewhat globose, depressed, attenuated into a subu- 
late style: ovules 2-3, ascending from the base: follicle oval, de- 
hiscing from the inner angle: seed solitary, surrounded with a dens 
ticulate cup-shaped aril, . 
