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Male: perianth campanulate: stamens 6 — 8, seldom 8—^0, 

 exserted, unequal: anthers 2-celled, cells ovate, separate. Fe- 

 male : perianth cylindric : rudiments of short stamens round 

 the ovary : ovary elongated : style usually lateral, more or lesa 

 exserted: stigma divided, usually pencil-flmbriated in many 

 acumens : fruit surrounded by the hardened perianth, cylindric- 

 elongated with the apex spreading, or ovate elliptic with the apex 

 closed, entire or ribbed, smooth or serrate-glandular and clammy, 

 dry or somewhat fleshy. — Trees or shrubs : leaves scattered or 

 opposite: flowers usually rose, cymose-corymbose, seldom umbelled. 



(1) P. ACTJLEATA. {lAflM.) 



Ident. Linn. sp. 1511. — Dec. prod. XIII. s. 2. p. 440. — Eoxb. 

 flor. Ind. II. p. 217. 



Si/n. Tragularia horrida, Koen. in Soxh. I. c. — PaUavia aculeata, 

 Veil, fl.flum. IV. t. 12. ^P. loranthoides, Kutith. in H. et B. nov. 

 gen. et sp. suppl. VII. p. 197. 



Engrm. Lam. 111. t. 861.— Wight's Icon. t. 1763-4. — Sloane 

 Jam. II. t. 167. fig. 3— 4.— Plum. Ic. ed. Burm. t. 227. fig. 1. 



Spec. Chab. Pruticose, spinous, glabrous : spines hooked, 

 axillary : leaves ovate, attenuated at both ends, petioled : flowers 

 dicBcious : fruit 5-ribbed : rib delicately serrated, clammy : flowers 

 small, greenish-white. 



Peninsula. South Concan. Bengal. Travancore. Plowering 

 in March and April. 



ORDER CXXX. POLYGONACEiE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamo-monoeciouSj or dioecious : 

 calyx 3 — 6-sepaled or partite, persistent : segments either 

 3 in one row or 5 imbricated, or 4 or 6 imbricated in two 

 rows, equal or unequal, outer ones sometimes winged or 

 armed with spines, inner ones entire or toothed, fimbriated 

 or spinulos'e: stamens perigynous, definite, 1 — 15, very often 

 6 — 8 — 9 : filaments capillary or subulate, persistent, free, or 

 very shortly connate : anthers 2-celled, dehiscing lengthways, 

 oval or oblong, usually attached by the back : ovary free, 

 ovate, or elliptic, compressed or 3-cornered, 1-celled : ovule 1, 

 basilar, sessile or attached by a short cord: styles 2—4, free 

 or more or less connate : stigmas capillate or discoid, or 



