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linear, deflexed, spreading: leaves oblong-obovate, more or less 

 cuneate-narrowed at the base, acutish at the apex, entire or sub- 

 repand-dentate, beneath sparingly pubescent : glomerules of leaves 

 indistinctly stalked either with leaves or bracts. 

 Behar. Near Monghyr. 



Var. h. GLABBA. — Mull. Arg. 1. c. — Leaves even when young 

 glabrous, adult ones a little firmer, arid more distinctly reticulately 

 veined. 



Coucan. 



GENUS XVII. CLEISTANTHITS. 

 Polygamia Moncecia. Sex: Syst : 

 Beri/o. !From Kleistos, shut up, and Anihos, a flower. 



G-EN. Chab. Segments of the calyx valvate : petals alternating : 

 lobes of the disc alternate with the petals : stamens verticillately 

 inserted on a central column : anthers 2-cleft : cells of the ovary 

 2-ovuled: fruit capsular: seeds ecarunculate, without aril, 

 sparingly albuminous : cotyledons membranaceous, thin, variously 

 folded.-i — Trees : flowers small, glomerated or spiked : leaves alter- 

 nate, simple, entire, oblong-ovate or elliptic, glabrous, short- 

 petioled, at the base often minutely auriculately bistipulate : 

 flowers monoecious or dioecious : calyces of either sex 5-partite, 

 segments at length deciduous : petals 5, males small, unguiculate, ' 

 broadly spathulate, truncated, crenate above, females more de- 

 veloped and entire, commonly lanceolate-spathulate : extrastaminal 

 disc long-urceolate, long adnate to the calyx, free crenulate or 

 5-lobed or 5-parted at the margin : hypogynous one broadly urceo- 

 late, loosely girting the stem or base of the ovary : filaments 

 radiately ascending from the point of insertion, free : anthers 

 2-cleft inwards, ovoid : rudimentary ovary more or less 3-lobed at 

 the top, nearly equalling the anthers : ovary always 3-celled, sub- 

 globose, more or less distinctly stipitate : styles 3, usually 2-cleffc 

 ■ to the middle : capsules 3-coccous, shells 2-valved, 2 — 1-seeded : 

 seeds often subconnate in pairs, usually broadly emarginate at the 

 base, or entire : testa very thinly crustaceous. 



(1) C. PATTTLTJS. (Muller.) 



Bent. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 505. 



Syn. Cluytia patula, Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 733. — Bridelia 

 patula, Sooh, et Am. Bot. Beech, p. 212. — Amanoa Indica, S. 

 Wight loon. — A. patula, Thwaites JEnmi. pi. Zeyl. p. 280. — Lebi- 

 diera patula, Mull. Arg. in. Linn. v. 32. p. 81. 



Ikyrav. Eoxb. Cor. t. 170.— Wight's Icon. t. 1911. 



Spec. Chab. Large tree : stipules small : leaves shortly 

 petioled, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute or obtuse at the base, ous- 



