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leafy, or with the leaves reduced to scales: leaves distichous, 

 various in form and size, most usually glabrous, never long- 

 petioled, entire, feather-nerved, bistipulate : inflorescences axillary, 

 monoecious or dioecious, or even in the same branchlet, the lower 

 or intermediate ones unisexual, distinct from the rest by their 

 sex, sometimes with the sexes mixed, some unisexual or all bi- 

 sexual, sometimes reduced to a single flower : flowers fascicled or 

 solitary : calyces small, even very minute, 9 — 4-parted or shorter 

 divided, segments biverticillately imbricated, usually 6 — 5 : sta- 

 mens 15 — 2, very Joften 3, filaments free or variously even with 

 the connectivum, connate, erect : clefts of the anthers extrorse : 

 rudiments of the ovary none : ovaries 15 — 2-celled, most usually 

 3-celled : styles equal in number to the cells, usually slender, 

 occasionally connate, commonly 2-cleft or parted, or 2-lobed, or 

 slightly furrowed, obtuse or acute, usually smooth : fruit a de- 

 hiscent capsule, dry, in some at first fleshy, and afterwards 

 capsular: shell sometimes somewhat bony: seeds smooth, or 

 rough with warts, or variously ribbed. 



(1) P. MTJIiTILOCITLAEIS. (Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in Elora Eatisb. 1865. p. 370.— Deo. prod. 

 XV. s. 2. p. 279. 



Syn. Agyneia multilocularis, TFJ'ZZt?. —Bradleia multilocularis 

 Spreng. Eoxh.flor. Ind. III. p. 696.— B. nitida, Wall. Cat. {not 

 Boa;h.).—'B. pubera, Wall. Cat. {not Bocch.^.—B. Phillipensis, 

 Wall. Gat. — ^Agyneia puTjera, Wall. Cat. {not Linn.). — Glochidion 

 multiloculare, Mull. Arg. in Linnma v. 32. p. 59. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : branchlets acutely angular, brown- 

 purplish: stipules triangular-lanceolate : leaves ovate or ob ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute at the base, narrowed rotund-obtuse at the apex, 

 mucronulate, beneath densely reticulated, purplish-brown or glau- 

 cescent : segments of male calyx obovate, obtuse, of female 6 — 

 many-parted, segments ovate: flowers fascicled: ovary 10 — 15- 

 celled, depresso-globose, glabrous: styles short, connate into a 

 depressed thick cone: ovary 10— 15-ribbed lengthwise, grey: 

 capsules large, depressed, concave at both ends : flowers greenish 

 cream-coloured. 



Bengal. Silhet. Mowering nearly all the year. 



(2) P. LiTTOEALis. {Mwller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c— Dec. 1. c. p. 280. 



Syn. Glochidion littorale, Bl. lidj. p. 585.— Bradleia littorea, 

 Steudel.—B. obtusa. Wall. Cat.— Agyneia, impuber, do. {not 

 Jjinn.). 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves orbicular or ovate-elliptic or 

 broad-obovate, acutish at the base,'beneath brown, glabrous : inner 

 segments of the male calyx shorter than the rest, oblong-elhptic, 

 obtuse, of the female btoad-elliptic, obtuse, glabrous : anthers 



