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GENUS XX. AGEOSTISTACHTS. 

 Dicecia Decandria. Sex : Sygt .- 



Beriv. So called from the grass-like spikelets of flowers. 



GrEN. Chae. Male "calyx valvate, female quincuncial: male 

 petals double the number of the segments of the calyx, females 

 equal in number : stamens central : cells free almost as far as the 

 apex, pendulous from the connectivum, unequally 2-valved : rudi- 

 mentary ovary none : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : capsules tricoc- 

 cous. — Shrubs: leaves bistipulate, alternate, petioled, feather- 

 nerved : flowers dioecious, arranged in supra-axillary spikes : spikes 

 short, densely bracteated in 6, 3, or 2 rows : bracts 3 — 1-flowered, 

 imbricated, seariose : terminal flower of each spike shortly pedi- 

 celled, lateral ones males, sessile or all pedicelled : lateral bracts 

 of the female spikes sterile : male petals 6, females 5 : stamens 

 10 — 12, biverticiUate, upper verticil 4 — 6-androus : filaments con- 

 nate at the base : anthers 2-cleft within : ovary 8-celled : styles 3, 

 connate below, free portion 2-cleft, divisions divergent, papillose : 

 seeds size of a pea, solitary. 



(1) A. Inbica. (Dale.) 



Ident. Dalzell in Hook. Journ. Bot. (1850) p. 51. — Dee. 

 prod. XV. s. 2. p. 726.— Thwaites Enum. pi. Zeyl. p. 279. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : stipules ovate-lanceolate, subulate- 

 acuminate, striated lengthways, very quickly deciduous : leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate, acute, cuneate-narrow at the base, repand- 

 toothed : spikes of either sex aggregated in the axils of the leaves : 

 bracts broadly triangular-ovate, acute, concave, somewhat silky : 

 calycine segments lanceolate ■ petals lanceolate-obovate, equalling 

 the calyx : anthers apieulate : ovary glabrous. 



Malabar. Concan. Syhadree hills. Mysore. 



G-ENUS XXI. SAECOCLINItTM. 



Dicecia Decandria. Sex i Syst: 



Beriv. Erom Sarx, sarcos, flesh, and Kline, a couch, alluding 

 to the fleshy disc. 



Gen. Chae. Male calyx valvately parted, female quincuncial .- 

 petals of either sex alternating with the sepals : disc of both sexes 

 developed : stamens central, outer ones opposite the petals : cells 

 of the anthers pendulous from the apex of the filament : cells of 

 the ovary 1-ovuled : capsules tricoccous : seeds ecarunculate. — 

 Shrubs or middling-sized trees : branchlets densely leafy and 

 clammy at the apex : leaves bistipulate, shortly petioled, entire or 

 serrated, coriaceous, more or less rufescent: flowers dioecious, 

 arranged in simple, long, axillary racemes, floweir-bearing from the 



