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^t's axillary and lateral, solitary, subsessile : fruit ovoid- conical^ 

 densely clothed -with fulvous stinging hairs, size of a large cherry< 



Choila Ghaut. 



(23) D. NiGRifcANS. ( Dalz.) 



Ident. Dalz. I. c. 



Spec. Char. Arboreous : leaves oblong or lanceolatej acumi- 

 iiated, membranaceous, glabrous : male flowers in threes, sessile on 

 the apex of a very short peduncle : calyx villous, turbinate, 4-par- 

 tite : lobes ovate-acute, ciliated, spreading : corolla glabrous, with 

 a short tube ', segments narrow-linear ; stamens 26, in twos, threes 

 or fours. 



Chorla Ghaut. 



(24) D. GoiNDU. {Dalis.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



iSjTO. D. cordifolia, R. W. 



trigrav. Wight's 111. t. 148.— Icofi. t. 1225. 



Spec. Char. Arboreous: leaves ovate- oblong, roun4ed or trttn* 

 cated at the base, obtuse at the apex, gjabrous : male flowers in 

 threes, on an axillary peduncle, as long as the petiole : femals 

 flowers axillary, solitary : calyX 4-partit6 : lobes short, rounded, 

 glabrous : corolla ufceolate : segments 4, rounded : stamens 16 J 

 iruit globose, size of a cherry, yellow when ripe. 



Common on the Ghauts, flowering from April to June. 



GENUS n. HOLOCHILU^. 

 Polysomia Oioecia. Sex: Si/tt: 



Deviv. From Hqlos, entire, and Cheilos, a lip, alluding to tlis 



«alyx. 



Gen. Char. Oalyx tubular, entire, truncated, seated on few bi- 

 farious imbricated scales : corolla tubular, 3-cleft almost to the 

 middle, three times longer than the calyx, lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 spreading : stamens jn female flowers 6, sterile, inserted at the base 

 of the eorolla, free between themselves, anthers twice shorter than 

 the filaments: ovary in females hemispherical, smooth, 6-celled : 

 styles 3, erect, thickish, obtuse at the apex : ovules in th$ -cells 

 solitary, pendent : male flowers unknown. 



(1) H. uicRANTHus. (Dalz.) 



Ident. Dalz, in Hook. Joum. Bot. IV. p. 290. — Bomb, flori 

 p. 142. 



'StEC. Char. Middling sized tree : leaves elliptic or oblong, ati 



