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the receptacle, sometimes developed in. botli ways at the same 

 time in the flowers : stamens numerous : filaments free, short : 

 anthers opening either inwardly or outwardly : ovary 3' — 2-celled : 

 styles simple, shortish, spreading, coarsely papillosely stigmatose 

 within: capsules 3 — 2-coccous, 3 — 2-seeded: seeds coloured a 

 lively red, globose: testa pitted, depressed, sometimes scro- 

 biculate. 



(1) C. iNDicrM. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Dee. prod. XV. S. 2. p. 782. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves membranaceous : racemes at length elon- 

 gated, flower-bearing from the base, whitish tomentose : male 

 bracts 7 — 3-flowered : hypogjmous glands pale, elliptic, afterwards 

 broader, somewhat confluent at the base : anthers 25 — 15 : glands 

 of the male receptacle snowy -penicillate at the apex : ovary pale- 

 tomentose : stigmas lacerately papillose : shells whitish- silky on 

 both sides. 



Tar. a. &BHTiNirM. — Shrub : branchlets pale tavmy-pubescent 

 above : leaves subrhomboid-elliptic, acutish at both ends : racemes 

 very long : male pedicels a little exceeding the open calyx. — Bry- 

 throchilus Indicus, Itein. op. Bl. Bidjr.p. 615. — C. Indicum, Haash 

 — Miq.jlor. Ind. Bat, — Croton Halecum, ^Boaib. flor. Ind. III. 

 p. 683 (?). 



Southern Peninsula. 



(2) C. MBEcrEiAiiia. (Thwaites.) 



Ident. Thwaites Enum. pl.Zeyl. p. 271. — Dec. 1. e. p. 790. 



8yn. Tragia mercurialis, Linn. — Mercurialis alternifoUa, Lam. 

 Mncyc. — Baill. Etud. p. 490. — Micrococca mercurialis, Benth. in 

 Sooher's Niger Flora, p. 503. 



Spec. Chae. Annual : stem erect, more or less purplish : 

 leaves oblong-rhomboid or rhomb-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 obtusely serrate : rhachis of the racemes filiform, bearing very 

 minute, short-pedioelled, Bolitary,*or 2 — 4-fascicled male fiowers in 

 the axils of the bracts, the females above : bracts ovate-lanceolate : 

 ovary densely strigose-hirsute : styles very short : seeds very 

 coarsely pitted. 



Pondieherry. Malabar. Mysore. Carnatic. 



GENUS XXV. ACALTPHA. 

 IHonoecia Octandria. Sex 



Deriv. Prom A, Kalos aiid Aphe, not pleasant to the touch. 



Q-EK. Chae. Male calyx valvate, female imbricated, of this one 

 of the segments is antioous : petals and disc none : stamens occu- 

 pying the centre on an elevated receptacle : anthers 2-cleft : cells 



