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coriaceous, entire: flowers axillary, spiked: spikes shorter than 
the petiole: stamens free: fruit filled with fragrant resin, size of an 
olive. 
Common on the Western Ghauts, flowering in January. 
GENUS XIV. PIPTOSTYLIS. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From {Pipto, to fall, and Stylos, a style, alluding to the 
deciduous style. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 4-5-cleft: petals 4-5: stamens distinct; 
filaments alternately shorter, dilated at the base, subulate at the 
apex: anthers oval, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise: ovary round- 
ish, placed upon a stalked disk, 3-celled: ovules twin in each cell, 
collateral, pendulous: style short, thick, articulated with the ovary, 
caducous: stigma not thicker than the style: berry 2—1-celled by 
abortion: cells 1-seeded by abortion. 
(1) P. Inpica. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 29. 
Engrav. Hook. Journ. Bot. III. t. 22. 
Spec. Cuan. Shrub: unarmed: leaves unequally pinnate: 
leaflets alternate, ovate, obtusely acuminate, shining: panicles ter- 
minal, corymbiform, as long as the leaf: berry small: cells 1- 
seeded: flowers small, white. 
Parwar Ghaut, flowering in March. 
GENUS XV. POLYCYEMA. 
Octandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Polys, many, and Kuamos, a seed, alluding to the 
numerous ovules. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 4-toothed : petals oblong, dotted with glands 
on the outside: ovary ovate, 4-celled, many ovules in each cell ; 
style very short: stigma 4-toothed. 
(1) P. renraPnytium, 
Ident. Voigt. Hort. Calc. p. 141. 
Syn. Amyris pentaphylla, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p- 247. 
Srec.Cuar. Shrub: leaves unequally pinnate: leaflets usually 
5, short petioled, broad-lanceolate, entire: petals much larger than 
the calyx: ovary hairy: panicles terminal, erect, 2-3-dichotomous- 
ly branched, with a single short-pedicelled flower in the fork : fruit 
pulpy, pale orange-colour, warty, the size of a small cherry, 
Cawnpore, flowering in March, 
