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narrowed at the base, denticulate at the margin, heaped together 

 at the apex of the branchlets, shortly petioled, stipitately biglandu- 

 lose at the apex : younger ones 'tomentose with thin rusty 

 stellate hairs, soon glabrate : stipules very small, somewhat gland- 

 shaped: segments of the female calyx at length foliaceous, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, denticulate at the base, 

 very green : stamens about 15 : filaments glabrous : racemes 

 terminal, with a single female flower at the base : female pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx : male petals puberulous at the margin, 

 females subulate : ovary glabrous, obovoid, deeply impressed at 

 the summit: styles connate into a column, free part twice 

 2-parted. 

 Silhet. 



(6) 0. CArDATUS. {Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 599. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves longish petioled, bearing stalked glands 

 at the base : flowers somewhat caudately racemose : male bracts 

 1 — 5-flowered : male flower-buds mutie : male petals snowy- 

 woolly at the margin : stamens about 30 : filaments bearing white 

 wool towards the base: ovary hispid: styles 2-parted almost to 

 the very base, filiform : capsules large, glabose, ellipsoid, coria- 

 ceous, thick-skinned : seeds smooth, minutely puberulous. 



Var. a. BBNTioTOATrs. — Shrub : leaves scabrous, puberulous 

 above, beneath softly villous and whitish : disc hypogynous, 

 abbreviated, somewhat entire. — Bl. bidjr. II. p. 603. 



Bengal. Assam. 



Yar. h. GENiriircrs. — Shrub : primary branches often very long, 

 sometimes scandent : leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, cordate or 

 obtuse at the base, serrated, with stalked glands at the base and 

 margin, scabrous puberulous on both sides : disc hypogynous, 

 shortly lobed or entire. — C. drupaceus, Boxb. Jlor. Ind. III. 

 p. 684. — C. aromaticus, Ocertn. fr. v. 2. ^.107 {not Linn). — C. 

 lacciferus, Wight loon. t. 1915 {not of others). 



Silhet. Khasia. Bengal. Assam. 



(7) C. Ti&LiTTM. {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Spec. pi. p. 1004.— Dec. 1. c. p. 600. — Eoxb. flor. 

 Ind. III. p. 682.— Willd. Spec. pi. IV. p. 543. 



Syn. 0. acutus, Thunb. flor. Japan, p. 269.— C. Jamalgota, 

 Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 14. p. 258. — Tiglium officinale, Klotsch. 



Ungrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 90. — ^Eumph. Amb. IV. t. 42. — 

 Eheede Mai. II. t. 33. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub or small tree : branchlets and petioles 



