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(53) P. MACEOOAiiTx. (MuUer.) 

 Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 48.— Dec. 1. e. p. 423. 

 Spec. Chae. Shrub: leaves elliptic, obtuse or acutish at 

 both ends, equal-sided at the base: stipules ovate-lanceolate, 

 brown : ealycine segments broad-ovate, females the largest : disc 

 of male flowers urceolar, lobulate, of the female flowers broad, 

 girting the glabrous ovary, somewhat torulose and densely rough 

 with grains. 



Malabar and Concan. 



(54) P. WiGHTiAiJtrs. (Muller.) 

 Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. e, p. 47. — Dec. 1. o. p. 425, 

 Syn, Eeidia floribunda, B. Wight Icon. f. 1903. 

 Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves ovate, obtusely acuminate at the 

 apex, more or less unequal-sided, pale reddish, densely pubescent 

 beneath : male flowers numerous, females solitary, long-pedicelled : 

 pedicels and calyces densely puberulous : calyces of either sex 

 similar, purplish, pubescent externally : segments oblong-ovate, 

 lanceolate, hairy ciliated at the margin : glands free, scabrous : 

 ovary densely beset with long tubercles, torn at the apex ; styles 

 bipartite as far as the base. 



Peninsula. Neilgherries. 



GENUS VII. MELANTHESOPSIS. 



Moncecia Triandria* Sex: Systi 



I)eriv. Prom its resemblance to Melcmihesa, so called from its 

 dark flowers. 



G-Eif. Chae. Male calyx deeply gamosepalous, turbinate, 6- 

 lobed in 2 rows, lobes imbricated, transversely sub-appendiculate 

 at the back : petals none : stamens central : anthers 2-cleft : cells 

 adnate lengthways : cells of the ovary 2-ovuled : fruit baccato- 

 capsular, tricoccous : seeds arillate, albuminous, ecarunculate : 

 cotyledons broad, equalling the radicle. — Trees or shrubs : flower- 

 ing branchlets solitary or fascicled, at the base as if involucred 

 with scales, distichously leafy : leaves shortly petioled, feather- 

 nerved, entire, bistipulate, very often becoming brownish-black in 

 drying : flowers monoecious, axillary, males lower in the flowering 

 branchlets, very shortly racemulose or fascicled in the densely 

 bracteated very short axillary smaller branches, females occupying 

 the upper axils, usually solitary : female calyx usually turbinate, 

 to the middle or even shorter, 6-cleft, rotately spreading above : 

 stamens 3, monadelphous : clefts of the anthers extrorse : con- 

 nectivum produced more or less above the cells : ovary 3-celled, 

 round-obtuse, always smooth and unarmed, glabrous: styles 



