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(9) A. CILIA.TA. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. 1. c. p. 4A. — Dec. 1. c. p. 873.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. 

 III. p. 676. 



Syn. A. fimbriata, Baill. Bee. d'Ols. hot. I. p. 272. 



Engrav. "Wight & Arn. Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. II. p. 111. t. 5. 



Spec. Chae. Annual: leaves ovate, long petioled, shortly 

 cuspidate-acuminate, acutish at the hase, coarsely serrated, mem- 

 branaceous : spites sessile, ovoid, much shorter than the petiole : 

 female bracts 2-flowered, segments scattered with few long hairs, 

 fruit-bearing ones broadly truncate-obovate, campanulate, promi- 

 nently ribbed externally, almost twice equalling the capsule, 

 divided for a third part or almost to the middle into about 17 — 

 21 suberect segments : divisions of the female calyx oblong-ovate, 

 of the male densely papillose: ovary sparingly hairy above: 

 seeds smooth, acutish at. the apex. 



Southern Peninsula. 



GENUS XXVI. ALCHOENEA. 



Diceeia Octandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Male calyx valvate, female imbricate : petals of 

 either sex none : male disc none, female developed or suppressed : 

 stamens central, outer ones, if more numerous than the segments 

 of the calyx, alternating : anthers 2-cleft : cells free among them- 

 selves for about half the lower part : rudimentary ovary none : 

 cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : fruit capsular : seeds ecarunculate : 

 cotyledons' elliptic, usually scarcely equalling the radicle. — Trees 

 or shrubs : leaves alternate, petioled, bistipulate, elliptic or ovate, 

 commonly serrated, spotted glandular beneath: spots brown, 

 sharply circumscribed : flowers dioecious or even monoecious, and 

 then very often situated in branches^ distinguished by the sex : 

 males glomerate, very often arranged in more or less interrupted, 

 simple, or paniculately branched spikes : females simply spiked 

 or racemose, solitary or rarely in threes in the axil of the bracts : 

 male calyx 4-, or rarely 2 — 3-parted : female 6 — 5-, or usually 4- 

 parted or cleft : stamens somewhat numerous or 8 — 4, commonly 

 alternating in 2 rows : filaments connate at the base into a 

 dwarf urceolus : anthers introrse or extrorse : ovary 3 — 2-celled : 

 styles as many as the cells of the ovary, connate or usually free 

 at the base, entire or 2-parted, somewhat channelled : capsules 

 usually opening distinctly from the base towards the apex, 3 — 

 1-coccous, 3 — l-seeded: seeds more or less scabrous, with 

 tubercles. 



