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lower particularly at tlie nerves : stipules free, often cadu- 

 cous : peduncles axillary, divided into bisexual cymes : bracts 

 stipular, opposite : male flowers prior to the females, which 

 are in the lower axils of the dichotomy : lobes, and often the 

 ovary and whole cyme, coloured rose or white, seldom red or 

 yellow. 



GENUS I. OASPAETA. 



nionoecia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 



GrEN. Chae. Male tlowees : sepals 2 : petals 2 : stamens 

 inserted on a pulvinated disc, free, anthers elongated, laterally 

 dehiscing by 2 clefts. Pemale plowees : lobes 5 — 6 : styles 3, 

 2-cleft : branches often divided : ovary 3-celled, placentae bipartite 

 from the inner angles of the cells : capsules 3-winged or horned, 

 flat above or produced into a more or less elongated cone : style 

 quickly orbate, wings or angles equal, afterwards cleft length- 

 wise from the base, dehiscent, and therefore truly locuUcidal. — 

 Herbs or shrubs: leaves penni-subpalmate, or palmatinerved : 

 cymes frequently unisexual and few-flowered : flowers purple, 

 rose, or whitish, female ones often bibracteolate at the base. 



(1) C. OLiGOCAEPA. {Alfh. Bee.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. p. 276. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial : stem herbaceous, simple : leaves 

 obliquely ovate-acuminate, cordate, palmately 7 — 8-nerved, younger 

 ones glandulosely puberulous, soon glabrate, undulate, denticulate, 

 or subentire : stipules lanceolate, caducous : peduncles axillary, 

 much shorter than the petiole, 1 — 6-flowered : bracts lanceolate, 

 caducous : sepals and petals of the male flowers elliptic, nearly 

 equal : fruit of the female flowers solitary, subglobose, somewhat 

 fleshy, 4-corneredly-horned at the back of. the cells, 



Khasia. Chittagong. 



(2) C. POLTCAEPA. {Alph. Bee.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 277. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial : stem herbaceous : leaves obliquely 

 ovate-acuminate, subcordate, palmately 8-nerved, undulated, den- 

 ticulate : stipules lanceolate, caducous : peduncles axillary, shorter 

 than the flexuose petiole, many-flowered : bracts lanceolate, cadu- 

 cous : sepals and petals of male flowers elliptic : fruits from the 

 same peduncle 2 — 8, subglobose, somewhat fleshy, 4-comered, 

 horny. 



Assam. 



