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GEiiTUS XI. CLBRODEi^TDfeolir. 



iDIdynamia Anglospei'inla. Sex .■ Si/s( i 



Deriv. Prom Kleros, a lot, and Dendron, a tree ; in allusioi' 

 to the uncertam medical properties of the species. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx campanulate, rarely tubular, sometimes 5- 

 angled, or somewhat salver- shaped, tube usually conspicuously 

 ■exceeding the calyx, sometimes very long : limb five-parted, the 

 two upper divisions a little larger : stamens 4, inserted on the tube 

 6f the corolla, miicli exserted, sub-didynamous : , anthers 2-celled, 

 cells parallel opening longitudinally : ovary 4-celled, cells with ona 

 penduloTiS oVule : style filiform, exserted'; stigma 2-cleft, acute, 

 drupe within the enlarged-, petsisteiit calyx, baccate, 4 or by 

 abortion 1 -seeded, usually 2-4-lobed, nuts woody, smooth : seed 

 solitary, pendulous, cotyledons oily, radicle short inferior. — ■ 

 Shrubs, or small trees, leaves opposite or ternate, simple, entire 

 or rarely lobed : cymes trichotomous, axillary or collected into ^ 

 terminal panicle. 



(1) 0. INFORTUNATUM. (Zjn«ij) 



Ident. Linn. flor. Zeyl. p. 232.^-Dec. pr6d. XI. p. 667, 



Syn. Volkameria infortunata, Roxb. — C. viscosum. Vent. 



Siigrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1471.— Bot. keg. t. 629.— Burm', 

 flor. Zeyl. t. 29. — Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 49. — Bot. Mag. t. 1805.—. 

 Rheede Mai. II. t. 29. 



Spec. Chari Urider-shrub, 2 to S feet high : branohlets qua- 

 drangular : leaveslong-petioledi rounded or ovate-cordiate, the Upper 

 ones ovate-entire or dentate-strigoSe, and hairy on both sides: 

 panicle terminal^ large. Spreading, naked : flowers white tinged 

 with rose inside ; the calyxes increasing and turning red after the 

 flower withers : drupe black, within the increased calyx. 



Common at Yingorla. Bdgaum. Oude. Bengal. Flowering in 

 February and March. 



(2) C. serratum. (Spreng.) 



Ident, Spreng. Syst. II. p. 758. — Dec. prod. XI. p. 664. 



Syn. Volkameria seri-ata, Linn. Roxb.^—C. MacrophyllumJ 

 Sims. — C. Javanicum, Walpers. — V. farinosa, Roxb. — C. ternifo-* 

 lium, Don. prodfl. Nep. 



Engrav. JBot. Mag. t. 2526— Wight's Icon. t. 1472, 



