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ashy trown : drupe ellipsoid, smootbish, undulate-foTeate, obtuse 

 at both ends. 

 Khasia. 



(3) A. Menast:. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 257. 



Syn. A. Bunias, Wall. Gat. M. 7882.— A. Alexiteria, Gartn. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : branchlets softly ashy-pubescent : 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate, shortly cuspidate, subacute at the base, 

 pubescent at the ribs, afterwards glabrate: racemes simple or 

 paniculately branched : bracts hairy, lanceolate, exceeding the 

 pedicels ; calyx hairy within, deeply 3 — 4-parted : segments ovate, 

 acutish : disc urceolate, lobed, glabrous : drupes slightly com- 

 pressed, ovoid. 



Canara. Khasia. Flowering in March and AprU. 



(4) A. NiGEiCANS. (Tulasne.) 



Ident. Tul. in Annal, des So. Nat. 1851. p. 225.— Dec. 1. c. 

 p. 258. 



Si/n. A. Alexiteria, Willd. {not Gcsrtn.'). 



Spec. Chae. Small tree: branchlets obscurely tawny-tomen- 

 tose : leaves oblong-obovate, acuminate, subobtuse at the base : 

 stipules subulate, exceeding the petioles: racemes 2 — S-times 

 shorter than the leaves, densely flowered, somewhat paniculately 

 branched, pubescent, becoming black in drying: bracts hairy, 

 ovate-lanceolate, equalling the pedicels : calyx very minute, 4 — 3- 

 parted almost at the base : segments ovate, acute, afterwards re- 

 flexed: disc entire, thick, hemispherical, glabrous: rudiment of 

 the ovary shortly obovoid, glabrous. 



snhet. 



(5) A. SIMILE. {Mutter.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 259. 

 Syn. A. Bunius, Wall. Gat. No. 7282 {not Spreng.). 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : branchlets densely ashy-pubescent ! 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, younger 

 ones hairy -at the ribs : stipules pubescent, Unear-lanceolate, ex- 

 ceeding the short petioles : younger spikes dense-flowered, exceed- 

 ing the spreading flowers on account of the lanceolate bracts, 

 somewhat squarrose ; calyx sessile, 3-parted, triandrous : segments 

 ovate, acute, denticulato-subciliate at the margin : disc glabrous : 

 rudiment of the ovary obconical, glabrous. 



Silhefc. 



