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Srec. Cua. Shiubby: branchlets petioles and pedtineles silky- 
‘tomentose: leaves obovate-oblong, acute or acuminated, sharply 
‘serrated, cordate at the base, plicated, hoary-pubescent or silky 
‘below: catkins pendulous: bracts and valyx densely silky: petala 
linear, white. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in November. 
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GENUS Il. HAMAMELIS. 
Tetrandtia Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Hama, with, and Mélon, an apple, alluding to the 
fruit accompanying the flower. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx valvate: petals 4, involutely valvatie in esti+ 
vation, linear: stamens alternating with 4 scales: filaments. short : 
anthers with valvular dehiscence: ovary 2-celled, ovule solitary : 
capsule woody? endocatp horny, loose. ae 
(1) H. Citwensis. (Brown. ) 
Ident. Brown, in Abel’s Voy. to China, p. 374,~Jour. Proe, 
Linn. Soe. Il. p. 85. 
Engrav. Abel's Voy. to China, ut supra. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub, stellately tomentose: leaves persistent, 
‘ovate-oblong, acuminated, above spatingly puberulous: flowers capi- 
tate, subternate: Iobes of the calyx ovate, obtuse: petals narrow 
-Hineat: eapsules ‘obovate, densely tomentose. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in October. 
ORDER LXXVII. UMBELLIFERA. 
Herbaceous, rarely suffrutescent plants, with fistular and 
furrowed stems: leaves alternate, rarély opposite, simple, vari- 
ously divided, sheathing at the base; flowers in umbels, usually 
surrounded by an involucre: calyx entire or 5-toothed? petals 
6, inserted on the outside of a fleshy disk, around the top of 
the ovary, alterndte with the teeth of the calyx and usually 
tumed in at the point: sestivation imbricate, rarely valvate : 
stamens 5, alternating with the petals, incurved in sstivation: 
ovary 2-celled, with one’solitary, pendulous ovule in each cell : 
styles 2, distinct: stigmas simple: fruit consisting of 2 carpéls, 
which adhere by their face (the commissure) to a common axis 
