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monoecious ; inflorescences terminal, paniculately spiciform, short, 

 bearing a few female flowers at the base or uppermost axils of the 

 leaves: male calyx 3— 6-parted, female 5 — 6-parted: filaments 

 free : anthers erect, emarginate at both sides : rudimentary ovary 

 columnar : ovary 3-celled : styles shortly connate into a column, 

 then divaricateljr spreading above, densely fimbriately papillose 

 within : young truit fleshy, 1-seeded by abortion. 



(1) S. MALLOTiFOEMis. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in Linnsea v. 34. p. 136. — Dec. prod. XV 

 s. 2. p. 764. 



Spec. Chas. Shrubby : leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, acute, 

 entire, uppermost ones not collected together, sUghtly petioled, 

 obtuse at the base : spikes a little shorter than the leaves : flowers 

 rather densely arranged in glomerules: male flowers numerous, 

 longer than the pedicels, shortly pubescent. 



Southern slopes of the Keilgherries. Malabar. Concan. 



(2) 8. SlLHETIANA. (Baill.) 



Ident. Baill. Etud. gen. Euph. p.'474. t. XI. figs. 6—7.— 

 Dec. prod. 1. c. p. 764. 



Spec. Ohae. Shrubby : young branches tawny-pubescent, soon 

 glabrate : stipules triangular-lanceolate, tawny -puberulou's, soon 

 deciduous : leaves spathulate-lanceolate, long cuspidate -acuminate, 

 young ones hairy : inflorescences about twice as short as the 

 leaves, often paniculately branched : male sepals puberulous : 

 ovary slightly tomentose : common base of the styles columnar, 

 scarcely equalling the ovary, to^ientose : segments pubescent. 



Silhet. Khasia. 



GENUS XXIV. CLAOXYLON. 



Dicecia Folyandria. Sex: Syst: 



G-EN. Chae. Male calyx valvate : petals none : glands of the 

 hypogynous disc developed, alternating with the sepals : stamens 

 central, on an elevated receptacle : anthers 2-cleft : cells fixed by 

 the base, erect : rudimentary ovary none : cells of the ovary 

 1-ovuled, opposite the -sepals or fewer, one posterior : fruit cap- 

 sular : seeds ecarunculate. — Shrubs and trees, rarely herbs : leaves 

 alternate, stipulate, petioled, often purplish or violet-reddish, with 

 2 — 4 teeth-shaped stipels at the base above, never spotted glan- 

 dular beneath: flowers dioecious, seldom monoecious, small, 

 arranged in simple axillary racemes, bearing either fascicles or 

 glomerules : male calyx 3- rarely 4-parted, female 3 — 2-parted : 

 glands of the hypogynous disc usually free, of the male flowers 

 various, sometimes covering the whole receptacle, scattered among 

 the bases of the filaments, sometimes cohering into a disc around 



