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stipules stiff, subulate : leaves more or less elliptic or ovate or 

 obovate, toothed or entire, acute at both ends, below at the base 

 biglandulose: racemes abounding in flowers : bracts 1 — 3-flowered: 

 segments of the female calyx triangular-lanceolate, of the male 

 pale at the margin and densely scurfy : stamens 10 — 12 : fila- 

 ments vrooUy near the base : styles once deeply bipartite : cap- 

 sules subglobose, covered with scurfy scales: flowers small, 

 green. 



In woods near Calcutta. Malabar. Concan. Canara. Hower- 

 ing in March. 



(3) C. EETiOTOATrs. {Miller.') 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 580. 



Syn. C. hypoleucus, JDaht. in SooJe. Jowrn. Bot. 1853. v. 3. 

 p. 123. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub: branches, petiole, and rachis of the 

 inflorescence covered with rusty hairs : leaves scattered, collected 

 at the tops of the branchlets, lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 acute at the base, repand-denticulate, covered beneath with silvery 

 hairs : stipules subulate : racemes many-flowered : female calyx 

 accrescent : disc hypogynous, repand-crenate, at length 5-lobed : 

 stamens 15 — 18 : filaments glabrous : ovary covered with rufous 

 hairs: styles twice deeply bipartite : segments stiff, furrowed at 

 the back : capsules not muricated. 



Malabar and Concan hills. 



(4) C. AEOMATIOTTS. {Lmi.) 



Ident. Linn. spec. pi. p. 1005. — Dec. 1. c. p. 588. 



Syn. C. tiUsefolius, Lam. Micycl. — C. lacciferus, Gcertn.fruct. 

 II, t. 107. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: branches, petioles, and leaves roughisb, 

 with stellate hairs : leaves long-petioled, bearing stalked glands 

 at the base, ovate, acute, cordate at the base, denticulate, glands 

 yellowish: racemes lax, spiked": bracts broadly subulate, males 

 1-flowered, equalling the flowers : petals snowy -woolly at the mar- 

 gin : disc hypogynous, urceolar, subentire : filaments about 30, 

 bearded near the base, glabrous, shining brown : ovary hispid 

 with stellate hairs : styles once 2ncleft, divisions subspathulate 

 entire or 2-lobed or cleft: capsules ellipsoid- or obovoid-sub- 

 globose, scabrous : seeds very minutely puberulous. 



Neilgherries. Malabar and Concan. 



(5) C. CHiOEOOAiTS. (Mtiller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in Linnssa, v. 34. p. 109.— Dec. 1. c. p. 590. 

 Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, 



