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Spec. Car. Branchlets smooth, sometimes with scales at the 
base: leaves articulated with the stem, acute or acuminated, quite 
entire or remotely and obscurely toothed: peduncles longer than 
the petiole, furnished with scales at the base and bearing 4-6 ovate 
bracts below the middle: petals roundish, convex, fleshy, inner 
ones smaller: filaments combined into a column, outer ones few, 
slightly free above, thick and dilated at the apex into a fleshy broad- 
cuneate connectivum : upper ones combined as far as the anthers: 
anthers linear-eblong, dehiscing lengthwise: berries cuneate-glo- 
bose, scarlet: seeds 1-2. 
Assam. Silhet. Flowering in May and June. 
(2) K. Wieutrana. (Arn) 
Ident. Arn. }. c.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 84. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves cuneate at the base, entire or scarcely 
toothed, pale beneath: peduncles axillary, scarcely exceeding the 
petiole, with hairy scale-like deciduous ovate bracts: sepals unequal : 
petals 9, oval, obtuse: berries the same as in the preceding species. 
Malabar. 
GENUS Il. SPHEROSTEMA. 
Dicecia Polyandria. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Sphaira, a globe, and Stema, a stamen : the sta~ 
mens are massed together on a globose disk, the anthers only being 
free. 
Gen. Cuar. Sepals 3: petals 6-9: stamens 15: or more, 
monadelphous: earpels globose, spiked together with the cylindric 
disk. , : 
(1) S. rxoneatum. (Bi) 
Ident. Blume. fi. Jav. 17.—Hook. & Thoms. Elor, Ind. I. p. 85. 
Syn. S. grandiflorum, Wall, 
Engrav. Blume |. c. t. 5. 
Spec. Cuar. Branches glaucescent, with seales at the base : 
leaves ovate, acute, often long-acuminated, pale or glaucous below 
with areddish petiole ; peduneles axillary, often several at the axils 
of the fallen leaves, exceeding the petioles, sometimes with a single 
bracteole at the middle: flowers yellowish: berries size of a pepper- 
corn, somewhat stalked, globose, marked above with a longish linear 
scar. 
Khasia hills, flowering all the hot season. 
