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racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves : capsules oblong, pen- 

 dulous : flowers erect, dark coloured. 



Concan hills. Coromandel. Deccan. Flowering in the rainy- 

 season. 



(3) A. ACtTMiNATA. {Lam.) 



Ident. Lam. Encyc. I. p. 254. — Dec. 1. c. p. 479. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial, twining, smooth : leaves cordate, 

 entire, somewhat acuminate : racemes axillary, simple or com- 

 pound, drooping, shorter than the leaves : petioles slightly chan- 

 nelled : corolla with a funnel-shaped tube : capsule pear-shaped, 

 dehiscing, with 5 valves : flowers dark greenish-purple. 



South Concan. Silhet. Chittagong. Ploweruig nearly all 

 the year. 



ORDER CXLI. EUPHORBIACE-ffi. 



Flowers unisexual : calyx free, gamosepalous, segments 

 equal or unequal, entire or variously cut and toothed at the 

 margin, glabrous or covered with hairs, sometimes coloured : 

 corolla polypetalous or very rarely mon'opetalous, hypogy- 

 nous or more or less distinctly perigynous or none, hairy or 

 glabrous, coloured, but never blue : .petals alternating with 

 the calycine segments, usually imbricated at the margin, 

 rarely twisted, and occasionally difiering in sestivation from 

 the calyx : stamens indefinite, in the male flowers central or 

 inserted at the bottom or above the base of the calyx : fila- 

 ments free, or 1 — polyadelphous, erect or variously incurved : 

 anthers free or cohering, opening in various ways : ovary 

 superior, usually 3-celled : carpels connate round a central 

 column, which remains after the fruit has fallen : cells I — 2 

 ovuled : style usually short, and divided in as many branches 

 as there are cells in the ovary, branches again variously 

 divided, more or less reflexed, papillose above : ovules pen- 

 dulous from the upper internal angle of the cells, sessile, soli- 

 tary or germinately collateral : fruit usually capsular, tri- 

 coccous, opening elastically : cocci usually 2 -valved : cotyle- 

 dons more or less flattened : albumen more or less copious. — 

 Large or small trees, shrubs or undershrubs, perennial or 



