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ORDER CIV- AZIMACE^. 



Flowers dioicous. Malb : calyx urceolate, 4- cleft ; petals 4» 

 hypogynous, equal, sestivation valvate ; Btataens 4, hypogynous ; 

 anthers 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally, connective 

 shortly produced, apiculate ; ovary abortive, conical. F£Mai,e : 

 calyx irregularly 2-4-cleft ; corolla as in the male ; stamens 

 rudimentary ; ovary hypogynous, turgid, 2-celled, with a single 

 ovule in each cell ; style none ; stigma sessile, peltate, some- 

 what 2-lobed; fruit a globose berry, 2-cdled or rarely, by abor- 

 tion, 1-celled ; cells 1-seeded ; seeds erect, planor^convex ; testa 

 coriaceous, rugose ; albumen none ; embryo lenticular ; coty- 

 ledons fleshy, cordato-auriculate at the base; radicle inferior. 



GENUS I. AZIMA. 

 Tetrandrla IHonosynla. Sat . Sytt : 

 Gen. Char. Same as that of the Order. 



(1) A. TETBACANTHA. (Lam.) 



Jdent. Lam. 111. Gen.— Wight's 111. p. 156. 



Syn. Monetia tetracantha, G. Don. — M. barlerioides, Z'fferih 

 Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 765. 



Engrav. L'Herit. Stirp. t. I. — ^Lam. 1. c. t. 807. — ^Wight 1. c, 

 t 153. 



Spec. Char. Dicecious, shrubby : branches opposite, tetragonal, 

 spreading, thorny : leaves opposite, petioled, acute, entire, smooth : 

 flowers axillary, clustered, very shortly peduncled, yellow : berries, 

 white. 



Peninsula. Dharwar. Flowering all the year. 



ORBER CV. JASMINAGEJE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, unsymmetrical ; calyx persistent, 4-» 

 8-toothed or lobed ; corolla hypogynous, l-petaJed, S-S-lobed^i 

 ^ver-shaped ; lobes imbricated in aestivation, the two exterior- 



