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base: bracts of female racemes 1-flowered, males commonly 

 3-flowered: male calyx (5-parted, female 5 — 4-parted : petals 

 shorter than the calyx : disc 5-glandular, glands alternating with 

 the petals, females at length cohering at the base : stamens birer- 

 ticillate, alternating : anthers 2-cleft within : ovary S-celled ; 

 styles 3, connate at the base, 2 — 4-cleft. 



(1) S. lONGrFOiiiUM. (B. Wight.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 727. 

 Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1887-8. 



Spec. Ohae. Shrub : stipules broad-orate, deciduous : leaves 

 stiffly coriaceous, veinless, spathulate, entire, flat, shortly con- 

 tracto-acuminate at the apex, rufescent on both sides : racemes 

 erect, spreading, shorter than the leaves : female pedicels jointed 

 a little above the middle: segments of the female calyx glandu- 

 lously denticulate : ovary pubescent : styles connate at the base 

 into a very short column, narrowly and horizontally spreading : 

 capsules small : seeds smooth, blackish. 



In Alpine forests on the northern slopes of the Neilgherries. 



GENUS XXII. CEOZOPHOEA. 

 nionoecia Decandria. Seix! 



Gen. Chae. Male calyx valvate : calyx of both sexes alter- 

 nating with the sepals, male calyx confounded with the base of the 

 staminal column : anthers 2-cleft : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : 

 fruit a fleshy capsule, tricoccous : seeds ecarunculate : cotyledons 

 broad, much longer than the radicle. — Small shrubs or perennial 

 or annual herbs, usually filled with purple juice, beset with hairs : 

 leaves alternate, stipulate, shortly or long petioled, ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, usually repand-toothed, herbaceous, with two glands at 

 the base : flowers monoecious : racemes axillary, bearing a few 

 female flowers at the base : petals of the flowers of both sexes 

 developed, or of the females only rudimentary, when developed, 

 narrow, hairy at the back, and somewhat resembling the sepals, 

 free among themselves, but alternately often slightly cohering : 

 stamens 1-, 2-, 3-verticeUed : filaments monadelphous : anthers 

 erect, extrorsely 2-cleft : ovary 3-celled : styles 3, connate at the 

 base, with 2 feet : capsules 3-seeded, 3-shelled : seeds spuriously 

 arillate : testa smooth or rough with tubercles. 



(1) C. piiCATA. {Mullev^ 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 747. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves long-petioled, repand-toothed or some- 

 what 3-lobed, or without lobes, plicato-undulate : male petals lan- 

 ceolate-ovate entire, females somewhat linear: stamens 12 — 15: 



