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2-ovuled : stigmas free : capsules tricoccous, shells 2-valved : 

 seeds destitute of aril and wart, exalbuminous : radicle of tlie 

 embryo minute : cotyledons thick, unequal. — Trees or shrubs : 

 leaves alternate, simple, feather-nerved, entire, glabrous, stipules 

 soon deciduous : flowers dioecious or monoecious, produced from 

 axillary buds, males 3 — 5-aggregated, females solitary and long- 

 pedicelled or in monoecious species mixed with the males : seg- 

 ments of the calyx 5 : male disc 5-lobed : filaments free at the 

 base or connate below : ovary 3-celled : styles 3, connate below, 

 the free portion 2 -cleft : capsules 6-seeded: seeds obtusely 3- 

 cornered, smooth. 



(1) A. Thomsoni. (JMuller.) 



Ident. MuU. Arg. in. Linn. vol. 34. p. 65. — Dec. prod. XV. 

 s. 2. p. 222. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree, dioecious : segments of the female 

 calyx linear-lanceolate, acute, beset at the base within by a row 

 of glands : petals linear-lanceolate, stiff, entire, about 3 times 

 shorter than the calyx ; leaves rhombo-obovate, obtusely cuspi- 

 date-acuminate, cuneate-narrowed at the base: peduncle of 

 female flowers 3-flowered : pedicel elongated, many times equal- 

 ling the calyx : glands short, truncated, crenulate. 



Mysore. Carnatic. 



(2) A. EXCELSA, {Mutter.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in Linn. vol. 32. p. 78.— Dee. 1. c. p. 222. 



Syn. Anomosperraum exeelsum, Dah. in Sook. Jburn. Bot, 

 1851,^. 228.— A. NeUgherrensis, B. W. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. 1. 1910. 



Spec. Chae. Large tree, monoecious : calyx somewhat mem- 

 branaceous, segments suborbicular, rounded, obtuse: petals of 

 either sex oblong-ovate, somewhat entire : leaves elliptic or 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, smooth, shining : stipules scale- 

 shaped : flowers fascicled, females long-pedieelled : capsule large, 

 globose, smooth. 



Conoor, in dense forests. Malabar and Concaa. Silhet. 

 Khasia, Flowering in April and May, 



GENrS III. MOACTJEEA. 

 Dicecia Fentandrta. Sex; Systi 

 JDeriv. The native name. 



Gen. Char. Segments of the male calyx quincuncial : petals 

 equal in number to the segments of the calyx, alternating, fe- 



