585 
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_ Spec. Car. Erect, smooth: leaves in 2-4 approximate pairs, 
harriw-lanceolate, atuminated, petioled: ‘stipulés ovate; recyryed, 
ciliated, upper ones becoming enlarged and leafy; umbels pedun- 
cled,. terminal, many-flowered + pedicels an inch long, clavate, a 
little ventricose above the middle: flowers white, largish, ~ 
* -Pundua mountains, near Silhet, 
(5) A. Courntatuense. (Arn.) 
fdent. Arn. in Ann. of Nat, Hist. III. p. 22: 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1160. 
Spec. Car. Stem creeping ; extremities erect, pubescent : 
Jeaves glabrous, verticilled or with 2 approximated pairs towards the 
apex: stipules obsolete: umbel pedundled, 2-6-flowered, shorter 
than the leaves: pedicels and eulyx pubescent: flowers tetramerous : 
filaments bent: anthers distinct: corolla white, with a yellowish- 
‘green tube. 
* Courtallum: 
GENUS XXXVI DISCOSPERMUM. . 
Tetrandria Monogymia; Sex: Syst: 
ta ee a ee 
Deriv. From Discos, a disk, and Sperma, seed, in allusion te 
the shape of the seeds. = re 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx-tube turbinate; limb deeply 4-lobed: corol- 
la shortly hypocrateriform: tube cylindrical : throat puibescent : 
lobes of the limb 4, obtuse; imbricated in aéstivation, revolute in 
«flowering ahd equalling: the tube: stamens inserted on the throat 
~ ofthe corolla, exserted: filaments. very short: ovary , 2-celled ; 
‘ovules 4-6'in each cell: style short; thickish, 2-cleft to the, middle : 
» divisions divaricate; acuminate: fruit globose or obovate, coriaceous, 
indehiecent, crowned. with the: limb of. the, calyx, umbilicate or 
- crowned below. the apex with the circular base, of the.calyx: seeds 
inserted in linear placente, adnate on both sides fo the dissepiment, 
com pressed-lenticular, vertical, separated by membranaceous parti- 
tions or lamellated vertical aril: embryo erect in the axis of cartila~ 
ginous albumen ~ 
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(1) D. spumrocarrum: (Dals.) | 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 120.—Hook. Jour. Bot. II. p. 257. 
- Syn. ~D. Dalzellii, Lhwait’s Enum. pl. Ceyl. p. 158. 
“I @pec. Can. Middlessized’tree: branchlets with the bark pale: 
leaves: opposite, elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, petioled, with hollow 
‘hairy in the axils-of the:primary. veins: stipules solitary, triangular- 
cuspidate : flowers in the opposite axils, small, sessile, clustered § 
