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GENUS XVI. &TB,OCAEPUS. 

 Polygamla Dloeda. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Oyros, a circle or ring, and Earpos, fruit. The 

 seed is winged, and turns round in falling. 



&EN. Char. Flowers polygamous : limb of the calyx superior, 

 4 — 6 — 8-parted, lobes, in the male flowers equal, small, in the 

 hermaphrodite ones persistent, two opposite ones larger, growing 

 out into an erect membranaceous spathillate wing : stamens 4, 

 filaments alternating with the free clavate glands, or with the 

 same adnate to the base : anthers ovate : style short : stigma capi- 

 tate : drupe coriaceous, long 2-winged at the top. — Trees : leaves 

 simple, undivided, or here and there 2 — 3- (rarely 5-) lobed : 

 panicles appearing early : flowers dichotomously cymose, axillary 

 ones solitary hermaphrodite, rest male small : stamens exserted. 



(1) G. AsiATicrs. {Willd.) 



Ident. Willd. sp. IV. p. 982.— Dee. prod. XV. p. 248. 



Engrav. Eoxb. Cor. II. t. 1. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves ovate-triangular, subeordate, shortly 

 3 — 5-lobed and entire, above glabrous, beneath canescently pubes- 

 cent : common peduncle shorter than the petioles, filaments 

 puberulous : wings of the drupe narrow-cuneate, lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse : flowers very small, greenish-yellow. 



Mountains of Coromandel and other hilly parts of the Penin- 

 sula. Banks of the Kistna. Flowering in the cold season. 



&BNUS XVII. ILLIGEEA. 



Pentandria Blonogynia. Sex -. Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Flowers hermaphrodite: calyx 1 — 3-bracteolate 

 at the base, tube short, narrow, adnate to the ovary, constricted 

 at the top, lobes of the 10-parted biseriate limb equal, somewhat 

 inflexedly valvate in sestivation, deciduous, inner ones or all peta- 

 loid : stamens inserted on an epigynous, 5-glandular ring, enclosed, 

 alternating with the inner lobes of the calyx : filaments filiform, 

 furnished at the base outside with two twin, approximate, small 

 membranaceous hoods, extrorsely foveate, or opening by a pore at 

 the oblique apex : anthers adnate, oblong : connectivum thickish, 

 truncated : s%le filiform : stigma membranaceous, peltate, repand : 

 drupe inferior, wingless, 1-seeded. — Climbing shrubs: leaves 

 scattered, exstipulate, palmately trifoliolate, leaflets coriaceous, 

 feather-nerved, quite entire : panicles axillary : flowers cymose. 



