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glabrous, pale green : stipules somewhat recurved, and reseinbling 

 bracts : leaves ovate, acute, obtuse at the base, more or less 

 crenato-serrulate at the margin, sometimes almost entire, limb a 

 little shorter than the petioles, firm, vfith 2 sessile glands at the 

 base : racemes many-flowered, bracts lanceolate-subulate : male 

 flower-buds mutic : segments of the male calyx ovate, whitish 

 membranaceous at 'the margin : female petals subulate, capitately 

 thickened at the apex : stamens 15 — 18, filaments glabrous : ovary 

 hairyish : styles long, slender, 2-cleft beyond the jpiddle, furrowed 

 at the back, incurved like a hook at the apex : capsules large, 

 ellipsoid, longer than broad, obtusely 3-cornered, pale: flowers 

 greenish-yellow. 



Neilgherries. Peninsula. Assam. Plowering in the hot 

 season. 



(8) C. PEESiMiLis. {Mutter.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 116.— Dec. 1. c. p. 618. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves very shortly petioled, biglandulose at the 

 base : stipules subulate, very short : raceme'long, many-flowered : 

 bracts 1 — 5-flowered, very small : segments of the male calyx of 

 the same colour : filaments bearded at the base : ovary clothed 

 with hairs : styles 2-parted : capsules very large. 



Var. GENUiNTJS. — Shrub : leaves lanceolate-elliptic, hairy, cus- 

 pidate-acuminate, acute at the base, entire or repand-toothed : 

 calyx pubescent : ovary hairyish. — C. oblongifolius, Thwaites 

 Enum. pi. Zeyl. p. 276 {not Boscb.'). 



Eastern Bengal. Khasia. Assam. 



(9) C. L^TiFOLirs. {Blime.) 

 Ident. Bl. bidjr. p. 603.— Dec. 1. c. p. -619. 



Syn. C. tiglioides, Bl. I. c. — C. diadenus, Mic[.fior. Ind. Bat. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, acute 

 at the base, almost entire, biglandulose beneath at the base: 

 stipules bristly- subulate, long : racemes many -flowered, terminal 

 and axillary, often more or less numerous towards the apex of the 

 branchlets, sometimes leafless, sometimes bearing one or more 

 leaves at the base : bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1 — 5-flowered : female 

 flowers lax : male flower-buds apiculate, subglobose, females 

 oblong : disc 5-lobed : filaments glabrous : ovary slightly tomen- 

 tose: styles[.3 — 4, once bipartite, segments stiff": capsules depresso- 

 globose. 



Khasia. Silhet. 



