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free, penduloTls from the apex : rudimentary ovary none : cells of 

 the ovary 1-ovuled, 2 anterior, 1 posterior -. fruit capsular : seeds 

 carunculate : embryo straight in albumen: radicle nearly equalling 

 the ovate cotyledons. — Shrubs, underahrubs, perennial or annual 

 herbs : leaves alternate, longish petioled, sometimes almost sessile, 

 never quite entire : petioles bistipulate at the base : inflorescences 

 uni- or bisexual, and then the male flowers uppermost : male 

 flowers numerous in the axils of bracts, [arranged in a densely 

 glomerate-flowered, often continuous spike, very small, at length 

 articulately deciduous, females usually 1 or 2 — 3 in the axils of 

 the bracts, sessile or rarely pedicelled : male calyx 4-parted : 

 female 3 — 5-parted : stamens 'normally 8 : filaments free : ovary 

 3-eelled : styles' 3, free or shortly connate at the base, simple, 

 seldom altogether entire : capsules tricoccous, very often more or 

 less concealed by variously developed female bracts : seeds smooth, 

 pitted, or tubercled. 



(1) A. PAJTIOULATA. (Miq.) 



Syn. Miq. Plor. Ind. Baf. vol, I. p. 2.. p. 406.— Dec. prod. XV. 

 s. 2. p. 803. 



Syn. A. racemosa, Baill. Mud. gen. JEwphorb. p. 443. — A. 

 Wallichiana, Thwaites Enum. pi. Zeyl' p. 271. - 



Spec. Chae, Perennial or shrubby, pubescent : leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, subobtuse at the base, flaccid, coarsely cut and ser- 

 rated, long-petioled, palmatinerved, membranaceous : female bracts 

 3-flowered, fructigerous ones broadly ovate, obtuse, very small : 

 segments of the female calyx glandular-ciliate : male spikes 

 axillary, very thin, dense-flowered, almost equalling the petioles in 

 length : female panicles usually a little exceeding the petioles, 

 fructiferous ones terminal, minutely puberulous, loose-flowered, 

 lower ones axillary : pedicels long exceeding the very small 

 female bract : segments of the female calyx ovate-lanceolate, after- 

 wards -reflexed : ovary glandul6sely submxu-icated : styles deeply 

 palmately 3 — 7-parted, the basilar portion rough with glands : 

 capsule deeply tridymous, long exceeding the fructigerous bracts : 

 seeds scabrous. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) A. FETTTicosA. {Forsh.) 



Ident. Forsk. Descr. p. 161.— Dec. 1. c. p. 822. 



Syn. A. betulina. Bete. ols. 5. p. 30.— A. amentacea, Soai. 

 fior. Ind. III. p. 676. 



Spec. ChaA. Shrub, of heavy odour and pubescent with sessile 

 waxy, golden-yellowish glands : leaves rhomb-ovate or rhomb- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate at both ends, serrated, firmly 

 membranaceous, beneath densely covered and shining with golden 

 glands : spikes unisexual, very shortly peduncled, or androgynous 



