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rudiment of the ovary : anthers 2-cleft, cells pendulous from the 

 top : glands of the disc situated between the rudimentary ovary 

 and stamens, alternating with the filaments and calycine segments : 

 ovary 1-celled, cell 2-ovuled : fruit drupaceous, indehiscent : seeds 

 without aril or warts, albuminous : radicle long, thin : cotyledons 

 broad-ova,te, flattened. — Small trees, rarely shrubs: leaves al- 

 ternate, simple, bistipulate, short^petioled, feather-nerved : flowers 

 always dioecious, spiked, or racemose, numerous, small: rachis 

 simple or branched : calyces of either sex 3 — 8-merous : segments 

 free, small, more or less obscurely coloured: stamens equal in 

 number to the calycine segments, or fewer or more numerous : 

 filaments free, exceeding the, calyx, often spirally twisting when 

 dry : cells of the anthers opening outwards : ovary 3-celled : style 

 usually terminal, divisions short, stiff, partly 2-lobed : drupe most 

 frequently 1-seeded by abortion, somewhat fleshy. 



(1) A. Gh^sembiila. {Muller.) 

 Idenf. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 251. 



Spec. Chae. Spikes panicled, densely flowered : bracts small, 

 oblong-obovate, acute, ciliated : male calyx sessile, deeply 5-(7-) 

 parted : disc hairy : ovary ovoid, clothed with pale rusty hairs. 



Var. a. pakictoatuit. — Tree: spikes very densely flowered, 

 usually most thickly covered with woolly down : branchlets rusty 

 or tawny-tomenfose : stipules linear-lanceolate : leaves elliptic or 

 obovate, obtuse or very shortly apiculate at the apex, often 

 slightly cordate at the. base, rusty -pubescent, especially at the 

 ribs, afterwards glabrate above : spikes rusty-tomentose : fruit 

 obovoid, very slightly compressed: pedicels 3 — 4 times shorter 

 than the fruit. — A. paniculatum, Roxb, Aor. Ind. III. p. 770. 

 Wight's Icon. t. 820. 



Concan. Bengal. Tlowering in June. 



Var. h. GEirtriNTjM. — Spikes less dense flowered, and less 

 composite, more thin, often longer, less densely covered with 

 woolly down: fruit-bearing pedicels longer.' — A. Grhsesembilla, 

 Geertn. fr. I. p. 189. t. 39. — A. pubesceni's, Moxb. Cor. II. t. 167. 

 mor. Ind. JB..p. 770. WigMs Icon. t. 821. 



Silhet. Vingorla. Cirear mountains. Flowering in the hot 

 season, 



(2) A. OEiONGATUM. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 254. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : stipules lanceolate-subulate, nearly 

 equalling the petiole : racemes with large bracts below, flower- 

 bearing bracts linear-lanceolate : calyx small, 3 — 4-parted beyond 

 the middle : segments orbicular-ovate, acute : disc thick, glabrous : 

 leaves lanceolate, very sharply cuspidate-acuminate, glabrous, 



