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Tar. aEHTJiNA. — Tree : stipules ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, erect, 

 caducous, tawny-pilose : leaves lanceolate-ovate, acute, obtuse or 

 acute at the base, entire : male bracts minutely ciliate-denticulate 

 at the margin, scarcely exceeding the calyx : male flowers sub- 

 sessile, segments of the calyx entire: fruit pale or reddish. — • 

 Scepa Lindleyana, Wight's Icon. t. 361. — A. Lindleyana, Baill. 

 Mud. — A. affinis, do. ^ 



Canara. Northern India. 



(3) A. SPHLSEOCAEPA. (Muller.) 



Idenf. Mull, Arg. in Hora Eatisb. 1864. p. 519.— Dee. 1. c. 

 p. 473. 



Spec. Chab. Tree : leaves elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate- 

 elliptic, acuminate, acute at the base, entire : female peduncles 

 rusty-pubescent : bracts very broad, not exceeding the flowers : 

 segments of the male calyx broadly orbicular-ovate : anthers 3 : 

 fruit regularly globose. 



Near Mangalore, in Canara. 



GENUS XIII. BISCHOFriA. 

 Dicecia Fentandriae Sex : St/sf : 



G-EN. Chae. Segments of the male calyx quincuneially imbri- 

 cated : petals none : stamens inserted round the rudimentary 

 ovary, opposite the calycine segments : anthers 2-eleft, cells con- 

 nate lengthways : cells of the ovary 2-ovuled : fruit sub-baccate : 

 mesocarp fleshy : endocarp tricoccous, parchment-like : seeds with- 

 out warts, sparingly albuminous : radicle three times shorter than 

 the large, flat, cordate-ovate cotyledons. — Large trees : leaves 

 alternate, trifoliolate, long-petioled, terminal leaflet longer than 

 the rest : limb of the leaves ovate, crenato-dentate at the margin : 

 inflorescences axillary, large, more or less panicled : flowers very 

 numerous, small : calyx of both sexes deeply 5-parted, female one 

 sometimes bearing 3 staminodes opposite the calycine segments : 

 filaments 5, free : anthers broadly ovoid, emarginate at both ends, 

 opening outwards, yellow : ovary 3-, rarely 4-celled, ovoid, terete : 

 styles entire, stiff, subUnear, recurved, connate at the base. 



(1) B. Jatanica. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 478. 



Spec. Chab. Fructiferous pedicels thickened, long exceeding 

 the fruit: fruit slightly wrinkled, very shortly contracted and 

 angled at the base. 



Var. a. genxtina. — Leaves subelliptic, obtuse at the base, cus- 

 pidate-acuminate at the apex ; male panicles almost equaUing the 

 leaves, large, females commonly reduced to a raceme, branched 



