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Srrec. Cuan. Scandent shrub: leaves long, unequal, almost 
quite glabrous: branches obtusely 4-sided:: leaves opposite, un- 
equal in the same pair, petioled, but sessile, or nearly so, under the 
panicle, ovate-oblong, long-acuminate, quite entire, rounded at the 
base, 5-nerved: panicles terminal, slender, drooping: flowers pedi- 
celled, bright-red. 
Chittagong, flowering in October and November. 
ORDER LXIII. ALANGIACEZ. 
Trees with alternate entire exstipulate leaves and axillary 
fascicled flowers: calyx campanulate, 5-10-toothed: petals as 
many as the calycine-segments, linear, reflexed, twisted in esti- 
vation: stamens exserted, once, twice or four times as many as 
. the petals: filaments distinct: anthers introrse, 2-celled, often 
sterile: ovary globose, cohering with the calyx-tube, 1—2-celled : 
‘ovules solitary, pendulous: style 1, subulate, expanded at the 
base into a thick coloured fleshy disk covering the top of the 
ovary: stigma dilated: berry oval, somewhat crowned by the 
limb of the calyx, fleshy, slightly ribbed, 1-2-celled: seeds soli- 
‘tary: albumen fleshy: embryo straight. 
GENUS I. ALANGIUM. 
Icosandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. The Malabar named latinized. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-10-toothed: petals 5-10: filaments very 
hairy towards the base: ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled: drupe 1-seeiled : 
branches occasionally spinescent. 
(1) A. pEcarETatum. (Lam.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 325.—Deec. prod. HI. p. 203. 
Syn. A. hexapetalum, Roxb. ft. Ind. Il. p. 502.—A. tomento- 
sum, Lam. Dec. prod. III. p. 204.—A. Lamarckii, Thwaites. Pl. 
Zeyl. I. p. 133. : 
Engrav. Rheede Mal, IV. t. 17.—Wight’s Icon. t. 194.—IN. 
II. t. 96. 
Srrec. Cyar. Small tree with the branches more or less spines 
cent: leaves narrow-oblong or ovate-lanceolate: petals 6-10: flow- 
ers few, axillary, whitish. 
Nearly all over India, flowering in the hot season. 
