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somewhat larger: stamens inserted in the middle of the tube, in- 
cluded: filaments short: anthers oblong, with parallel distinct cells: 
style shortly 2-cleft at the apex : lobes thickish, smooth within, stig- 
matose; disk epigynous, annular, somewhat 2-partite: ovary 2- 
celled: placente erect from the base of the cells, many-ovuled : 
capsule globose, crowned with the limb of the calyx, membranace- 
‘ous, dehiscing by cells: valves entire: seeds numerous, small ; testa 
coriaceous ; internal membrane adnate to the albumen, thickly reti- 
culated : albumen thickly granulated: embryo small, scarcely to be 
distinguished from the grains of the albumen. 
(1) C, Grirrirnn. ( Benth.) 
Ident. Hook. Jour. Bot. V. p. 308. (1853) 
Spec. Cnar. Herbaceous, glabrous, oppositely branched. : 
branches terete, flexuose at the joints: stipules reduced to a slightly 
elevated line, sometimes minutely toothed, connecting the petioles : 
leaves opposite, petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, longish-acumi- 
nated, serrato-crenate on the margin, roundish or cuneate at the 
base, membranaceous, feather-nerved : cymes terminal or peduncled 
in the dichotomous divisions of the upper branches, many-flowered, 
ultimate branchlets and pedicels alternate: bracts small, linear: 
ovary globose: lobes of the calyx oblong, unequal, much shorter 
than the tube of the corolla’; segments of the corolla much shorter 
than the tube, broad-ovate, obtuse, gibbous under the apex at the 
back or submucronate. 
Khasia hills. 
GENUS XVI. MORINDA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Morus Indica, the Indian Mulberry. 
Gen. Cuar. Erect or climbing shrubs or trees: leaves opposite, 
rarely verticilled: stipules within the petioles: peduncles solitary 
or several, axillary or leaf-opposed or terminal : flowers aggregated, 
sessile upon a globose receptacle: capituli changing in fruit to a spu- 
rious or compound berry: calyx-tube obovate, usually concrete 
with those of the nearest flowers: limb short, scarcely toothed : 
corolla funnel-shaped: tube somewhat terete: limb spreading, 5—4- 
lobed: zstivation valvular; stamens occasionally 4: filaments 
usually very short and with the anthers included: style filiform: 
stigma 2-cleft, with filiform segments: berries containing 2—4 nuts, 
usually concrete into one compound fruit, marked on the apex by 
the traces of the calyx: nuts 1-seeded: embryo terete, in fleshy 
albumen. 
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