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(3) C. NiTiDA. (Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 203. 



Syn. Tetranthera nitida, Botxh. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : branchlets sharply angular at the apex : 

 leaves coriaceous, attenuated at the base, oblong, obtuse, shining 

 above : racemes slender, lax. 



Silhet. 



(4) C. OBLOWGA. {Meissn.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 205. 



Syn. Tetranthera Doskia, Don. prod. flor. Nep. — T. oblonga, 

 Nees in Wall. I. c. p. 67. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves scattered, subcoriaceous, long- 

 oblong, equally attenuated at both ends, acute, glabrous, glau- 

 cescent beneath, obsoletely veined: umbels shortly corymbose, 

 hoary-tomentose . 



Assam. Khasia. 



Var. Stocksii. — Leaves a shining green above : umbels sub. 

 sessile, glomerate, fructiferous ones fascicled: cupula obovate- 

 hemispherical. 



Canara. 



GENTJS XI. ACTINODAPHNE. 



Dicecia Enneandria. Sex: Syst : 

 Deriv. Prom Aktin, a ray. 



GrEN. Chae. Mowers dicecious, several from an imbricately 

 scaled bud, proper involucre none : calyx'6-cleft, lobes deciduous. 

 Male : stamens 9, outer 6 eglandulose, inner ones with a sessile 

 or stalked gland on both sides : anthers oblong, 4-celled, all 

 introrse : staminpdes none. Temaie : stamens sterile, strap- 

 shaped, inner 3 biglandulose above the base : style filiform : 

 stigma discoid, sublobed :- berry placed on the persistent cup- 

 shaped base of the truncated calyx.— Trees or shrubs : leaves 

 scattered usually at intervals or at the apex of the branchlets, 

 penni- or rarely triplinerved : flower-buds perulate, imbricately 

 scaled : flowers axillary, glomerate, or fascicled, or racemose, or 

 very rarely solitary, wrapped in the scales of the bud before 

 flowering. 



(1) A. EETICTJLATA. (Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. p. 212. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree (?) : leaves chartaeeous-herbaceous, 

 acute at the base, lanceolate-acuminate, acute, prominently reti- 



