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shorter than the filament: disc flattish, interior to the 

 stamens, 4-lobed, lobes obtuse, alternating with the stamens. 

 Female : calyx oblong-quadrangular, 4-toothed at the apex, with 

 occasionally the addition of 1 — 2 smaller teeth : sta,mens none -. 

 styles 4, opposite the teeth of the calyx, longer than them, entire, 

 longitudinally furrowed within, bearing a papillose stigma at the 

 top : capsule somewhat dehiscent above at the furrowed base of 

 the styles. — Trees : leaves developing after the flowers, palmati- 

 nerved, somewhat unequal-sided; toothed or subentire, petioled : 

 spikes unisexual, many from the apex of the branches : flowers 

 fascicled or solitary in the axils of the bracteoles, sessile. 



(1) T. NIIDIEIiOEA. (JB. Br.) 

 Ident. E. Br. in herb. Horsf. — Dec. prod. XV. p. 411. 

 Syn. T. Grahamiana, M. TV. 

 Engrav. Horsf. pi. Jav. rar. t. 17. — Wight's Icon. 1. 1956. 



Spec. Chab. Large tree r leaves broad-oval, acute or acumi- 

 nate, unequally toothed, here and there sublobate, polished above, 

 beneath white-tomentose : styles shorter than the tube of the 

 calyx : spikes of male flowers diffuse, branched, females pendent : 

 flowers numerous, yellowish. 



"Western Grhauts. Trichore forests. Courtallum. There is 

 probably no distinction between the Javan and Indian species. 



ORDER CXL. ARISTOLOCHIACEiE. 



Flowers monochlamydeous and hermaphjrodite, gynan- 

 drous : calyx sometimes regular 3-lobed, sometimes and 

 usually irregular, and then various in shape, tube usually in- 

 flated above the apex of the ovary, enclosing the organs in a 

 bladder, then more or less produced, and at length expanded 

 into a 1- or 2-lipped or peripherous limb, persistent or wither- 

 ing and deciduous : stamens 6, seldom 5, or 1%, very rarely 

 18 — 36 : filaments short, free, or cohering below, or adhering 

 to the style and stigmas: anthers 2-celled, extrorse, cells 

 parallel, dehiscing lengthways : ovary inferior, 6-celled, ovules 

 many, anatropal, marked with a thick raphe, inserted in two 

 rows at the central angle of the cells, seldom 4-celled, and 

 then inserted in one row in the middle breadth of the dis- 

 sepiments : styles most usually 6, very rarely 3 or many, 

 more or less connate at the base into a styline column, the 



