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GENUS X. CTLICODAPHNE. 

 Dlcecla Dodecandria. Sex : Sygt : 



Beriv. From Kulix, a cup, alluding to the cup-shaped calyx. 



Gen. Chab. Flowers dioecious, involucrate : calyx 6-, or rarely 

 4- or 8-cleft : lobes deciduous. Male : stamens 6 — 18, inner 3 

 or 6 furnished at the base with 2 compressed sessile glands adnate 

 to the filament : anthers 4-celled, all introrse : pistil scarcely any. 

 Female : stamens sterile, strap-shaped, furnished with stalked 

 or adnate glands : style short or rarely filiform : stigma peltate : 

 ovary enclosed by the tube of the calyx : berry surrounded by or 

 half immersed in the tube of the calyx, which is converted into a 

 more or less and increased truncated cup. — Trees and shrubs, 

 with the habits of Tetranthera, nor to be distinguished from that 

 genus by any essential and certain character, except by the cup- 

 shaped calyx. 



(1) C. WiGHTiANA. (Jfees.) 



Ident. Dee. prod. XV. s. 1. p. 200.— Nees in "Wall. pi. As. 

 rar. II. p. 68. 



Stfn. Tetranthera Wightiana, Wall. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1833. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree: leaves stiffly coriaceous, acute at 

 the base, eUiptic or oval, or obovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, 

 green above, almost veinless, glaucine or tawny beneath, and 

 with the branchlets tomentose or glabrate : racemes hoary or 

 brown-tomentose : inner leaflets of the involucre and calyx silky : 

 stamens slightly hairy at the base. 



Neilgherries. Courtallum. Assam. 



(2) C. SEBiFEBA. (Blume.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 202. 



Syn. Litssea sebifera, £1. Bidjr. — Tetranthera macrantha, 

 Wall. — T. Eoxburgbii, Haash pi. Jav. — Lepidadenia "Wightiana, 

 Nees Syst. p. 583. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1837. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : branchlets angled : leaves coriaceous, 

 unequal at the base, long-oblong, attenuately obtuse or acuminate, 

 glabrous above, beneath with yellowish silky pubescence : racemes 

 short, hoary-tomentose. 



Neilgherries. 



