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GENUS XV. HEMICYCLIA. 

 Dicecia Polyandria. Sex: Si/st: 



Gen. Chae, Segments of the male calyx imbricated : petals 

 none : stamens inserted round the margin of the central disc : 

 anthers 2-cleft : ovary 1-ceIIed, 2-OTuled : fruit not capsular : seed 

 ecarunculate, copiously albuminous : cotyledons fleshy membrana- 

 ceous, suborbicular, about three times equalling the thin radicle. 

 — ^Trees, usually middle-sized : branches spreading : leaves alter- 

 nate, shortly petioled, entire or toothed : stipules soon deciduous : 

 flowers dioecious, fascicled : calyces of either sex deeply 4 — 5- 

 parted, two segments altogether exterior : stamens 8 — 25 : fila- 

 ments free, erect, younger anthers distinctly outwardly 2-cleft, 

 clefts soon lateral : disc hypogynous entire or crenated at the 

 margin, intrastaminal, occupying the centre, concave : ovary sub- 

 globose : ovules collaterally pendulous at the apex of the placenta : 

 style scarcely any : stigma first somewhat disc-shaped, reniformly 

 cut as far as the middle in the side of the placenta, afterwards 

 broadly reniform with more open lobes, deciduous : fruit 1-seeded 

 by abortion : endocarp bony or coriaceous, globose or irregularly 

 ovoid and angular, smooth : testa membranaceous, brown : coty- 

 ledons cordate at the base. 



(1) H. SEPiAEiA. (W. and A.) 



Ident. Wight et Arn. in Edin. Phil. Journ. v. 14. p. 297 

 —Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 487. 



Ik.grm. Wight's Icon. t. 1872.— Baill. Etud. t. 27. fig. 7. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : leaves ovate or elliptic, obtuse or 

 emarginate, lightly cordate at the base, entire or repand-denticu- 

 late, glabrous : flowers fascicled : stamens about 7 — 10 : calycine 

 segments suborbicular, concave, silky-pubescent outside ; central 

 disc not elevated in the middle : ovary and fruit globose. 



Travancore. Peninsula. 



(2) H. TENUSTA. (Thwaites.) 



Ident. Thwaitea in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1855. p. 272. — Dec. 

 1. c. p. 488. 

 3ngrm. Wight's Icon. t. 1992 (under Astylis). 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at 

 the base, entire, glabrous : stamens 5 — 8 : central disc flat. 



Western slopes of the Neilgherries. 



