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anthers subrotund, 2-celled, cells somewhat lateral, innermost 3 

 extrorse : staminodes triangular, subsessile or generally none : 

 ovary 1-celled : style filiform: stigma discoid, triangular: berry 

 oval, naked, placed on a thick fleshy pedicel. — Trees, with scat- 

 tered leaves often collected at the ends of the branches, feather- 

 nerved, leaf-buds small, scales few, leafy : panicles subterminal, 

 often few- flowered : flowers small. 



(1) H. WiGHTn. (Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 61. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1831. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves elliptic, acute at both ends, finely reticu- 

 lated, of the same colour on both sides : panicles shorter than the 

 leaves : lobes of the calyx deciduous : fructiferous pedicels straight, 

 slightly thickening upwards, shorter than the peduncle of the 

 panicle : staminodes present in the male flowers. 



Courtallum, flowering in August and September. 



GENUS VI. BEIL8CHMIEDIA. 

 Enneandria monogynla. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Mowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, racemose : 

 racemes imbricated with deciduous scales : calyx 6-parted, lobes 

 deciduous : anthers ovate-oblong, 2-ceUed, cells of the innermost 

 ones lateral : glands 3- or 6-stalked, placed between the third or 

 second row of stamens : staminodes 3, ovoid or subsagittate, very 

 shortly stalked : ovary incompletely 2-ceUed, 3-ovuled: style fili- 

 form : stigma discoid : berry juiceless, naked, oblong, placed on 

 the persistent base of the calyx, 1-celled. — Trees, nearly opposite 

 or scattered, feather-nerved : racemes springing from the axillary 

 leaf-bud : scales 1 — few-flowered, afterwards deciduous : flowers 

 yellowish. 



(1) B. EoiBTTEGHiANA. {Wees.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 63. 



Syn. Laurus bUocularis, Boxb.flor. Ind. Yi.. p. 311. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1828. 



Spec. Chae. Branches wide spreading : leaves opposite and 

 altermite, broad lanceolar, shining, veined : racemes solitary under 

 the leaves or axillary : filaments without glands : berries oblong, 

 glaucous. 



Common on the Western Ghauts. 



(2) B. EAGiroLiA. {Nees.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 64. 



Spec. Chak. Leaves scattered, elUptic, shortly acuminated. 



