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(4) H. COOHINCHINENSIS. (LoUr.) 



Ident. Lour. flor. Gocli. p. 83.— Dec. 1. c. p. 442. 



Syn. Ehopala Cochinchinensis, B. Br. in Linn. Trans. 10. 

 ■p. 192. — E. robusta, Spreng. syst. I. p. 482 (partly, not Eoxb.). 



Spec. Ohae. Middling-sized tree: leaves petioled, ovate- 

 elliptie, short acuminate, minutely serrated or here and there 

 quite entire : racemes axillary, nearly equalling the leaves, dense- 

 flowered : hypogynous scales half connate. 



Assam. 



ORDER CXXXIV. THYMELiEACEJE, 



Flowers hermaphrodite : calyx inferior, coloured, tubular, 

 infundibuliform, campanulate or urceolate, tube continuous 

 or articulately breaking above the base : limb 4 — 5 lobed,- 

 lobes connivent or spreading, imbricated in sestivation : scales 

 hypogynous, 4 — 8, small, membranaceous, fleshy or filiform, 

 placed round the ovary, free or concrete into a ring or cup, 

 or adnate to the calyx : -Stamens 2 or 4 — 5, or 8, or 10, in- 

 serted on the throat or tube : filaments filiform, adnate to 

 the calyx even to the middle of the tube or throat or base of 

 the lobes, sometimes long and exserted : anthers 2-celled, 

 oval, oblong, or linear, affixed by the base or back, erect or 

 versatile, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts : ovary free, 

 1 — 2-celled, ovule 1, solitary pendulous : style simple : stigma 

 capitate, entire, papillose, rarely smooth : fruit indehiscent, 

 nut-like, drupaceous, or baccate, 1-, seldom 2-celledj cells 1-, 

 rarely 2 — 3-seeded : albumen none, or thin, or fleshy : em- 

 bryo straight : radicle superior, short, straight. — Shrubs, 

 seldom trees or herbs : hairs, when present, simple : leaves 

 exstipulate, scattered or opposite, simple, undivided, quite 

 entire, articulate at the base : inflorescence terminal or rarely 

 axillary : flowers capitate, fascicled, umbellate, racemose or 

 spiked, rarely solitary, usually without bracteoles, articulated 

 with the pedicel or receptacle, often surrounded by a common 



