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5—6 : male pedicels short, females flower-bearing, almost none : 

 ovary 12— 10-ceUed, very shortly silky-pubescent : stylme column 

 10_12-furrowed, glabrous, base broad, shortly conical : stigmas 

 emarginately retuse at the apex : capsules moderately depressed, 

 lightly many-furrowed, puberulous at the apex. 

 Peninsula. 



(3) P. Zbylamctts. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 281. 



Syn. Bradleia Zeylanica, C^er^w. — Grlochidion Zeylanicum, 

 Ad. Juss. Tent. Euph. p. 107. t. 3.— Agyneia obliqua, Willd. 



Bradleia obliqua, Spreng. — Glochidion Bancanum, Miq. flor. 

 Ind. Bat. svppl. 449. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : branchlets glabrous : stipules trian- 

 gular-ovate, acuminated, stiff, recurved, persistent : leaves oblong- 

 elliptic, obtuse or shortly acuminate, usually lightly cordate at 

 the base, above more or less pale, shining, beneath purplish- 

 brown, densely transversely ribbed : flowers somewhat numerous 

 in the axUs of the leaves : fascicles often shortly peduncled and 

 supra-axiUary : pedicels fascicled : ' segments of the male calyx 

 broad-ovate, obtuse, often one or the other of the inner ones with 

 2 auricles at the base, of the female subrotund or broad-ovate : 

 stamens 5 — 6: ovary 7 — 4-celled, globose, glabrous: styline 

 column conical, 7 — 4-lobed at the apex, with emarginate lobes : 

 capsule ovoid-globose, lightly depressed, scarcely furrowed, 

 apiculated with the styline crown. 



Canara. 



I (4) P. NiTiDUS. (^Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 870.— Dec. 1. c. p. 282. 



Syn. Bradleia nitida, Boxh.fl. Ind. III. p. 699. — Glochidion 

 nitidum, Dalg. Bomb. flor. p. 235. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree or shrub : leaves oblongate-ovate, acute, 

 unequal-sided at the base, glabrous, shining, pale above : stipules 

 minute, acute, inflorescences very shortly peduncled, somewhat 

 supra-axillary : flowers of either sex mixed in each inflorescence, 

 females, however, much more numerous, and many times shorter- 

 pediceUed than the males : calycine segments ovate, acute : ovary 

 5 — 6-ceUed, glabrous : styline column conical, truncated, 5 — 6- 

 cleft at the apex : lobes emarginately bilobulate : anthers 5 — 7 : 

 capsule depresso-globose, 10 — 12-furrowed. 



Valleys of the Circar mountains. South Concan. Vingorla. 

 ^Flowering in January. 



