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cous, often almost orbicular. — Andrachne orbicularis, Both. Nov. 

 Flcmt. Ind. or. p. 364. 



Bengal. 



Var. c. Lambeett. — Leaves same as in the preceding, but hairy 

 beneath at the ribs and margin : petioles grey -villous : capsules 

 smaller : bracts and calyx externally villous : calycine segments 

 many times exceeding the petals : glands almost distinct from 

 each other, 



Bengal. 



GENUS XIX. CEOTON. 

 Slonoecia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 



Berw. From Kroton, a tick ; the seeds resemble that animal. 



GrEN. Chae. Male calyx 5- (4 — 6-) parted, segments imbri- 

 cated at the apex only : petals equal in number to the sepals : 

 glands of the disc alternating with the petals : stamens central, 

 usually 10 — 20 : filaments inflexed with the anthers at the apex : 

 anthers more or less fixed by the base, at length oscillating, erect, 

 2-cleft : cells of the ovary (2 — 4-, very often 3-) 1-ovuled : styles 

 dichotomously divided : fruit capsular : shell 2-valved -. seeds 

 carunculate : embryo straight in albumen : cotyledons ovate, 

 equalling the radicle. — Trees, or more frequently shrubs and 

 perennial herbs, rarely annual : leaves alternate, petioled, bisti- 

 pulate, toothed or entire, rarely lobed : flowers commonly monoe- 

 cious, arranged in a raceme often spiciform, most frequently 

 terminal, lower ones female : segments of the female calyx 4 — 6, 

 commonly 5 : male petals nearly always, females rarely developed : 

 receptacle very frequently woolly-pubescent : anthers introrse in 

 the open flowers : capsules most frequently tricoccous. 



(1) C. JouFEA. (jBoxh!) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind, III. p, 685.— Dec, prod. XV. s. 2. 

 p. 519. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: young branchlets silvery scaly: leaves 

 broad ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, glabrous, not silvery 

 beneath, approximate at the apex of the branchlets, biglandulose 

 at the base : racemes siibterminal or axillary, many times exceed- 

 ing the leaves : petals of either sex lanceolate, woolly : stamens 

 12 : styles deeply 2-parted : lower flowers of mixed sexes, calyces 

 externally scaly. 



SUhet. 



(2) 0. OBLONGIFOLmS. {JBoxl) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. p, 685.— Dec, 1, c. p, 573. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : younger branches with the young leaves 

 and inflorescences covered sparingly with yellowish scales: 



