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(1) A. TiiLaBi'oiiA. {Muller.') 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in Linnaea toI. M. p. 168, — Dec. prod. XV. 

 s. 2. p. 903. 



Syn. Stipellaria tilisefolia, Benth. in. SooTc. Journ. Bot. (1854) 

 p. 4. 



Sped. Chae. Shrub : leaves broad-ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 truncate at the base, 3-nerved, glandular-denticulate : male 

 glomerules 2 — 5-flowered : male and female spites simple, female 

 many-flowered : segments of the female calyx linear-lanceolate : 

 ovary slightly tomentose and muricately tubercled : styles pube- 

 ruloua at the back : capsule ellipsoid, muricated. 



Silhet. Khasia. Goalpara. 



GENUS XXVII. TEAGIA. 



Moncecia Trlandria. Sex: St/st: 



Deriv. In honour of Jerome Bock, generally called Tragus, a 

 German botanist. 



Gen. Chak. Male calyx valvate, female imbricated: petals 

 none : stamens central, inserted round a very small rudimentary 

 ovary : anthers 2-cleft, fixed by the back, cells adnate lengthways 

 to the eonnectivum : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : in the female 

 calyx (if 6-parted) opposite the outer segments, 1 posterior, 2 

 anterior: styles connate below: seeds ecarunculate, esaril- 

 late. — Shrubs, undershrubs or perennial herbs, scandent or 

 twining, rarely annual erect herbs, usually clothed, like nettles, 

 with more or less stinging hairs: leaves alternate, bistipulate, 

 long or short petioled, usually ovate, membranaceous : flowers 

 monoecious, racemose : racemes terminal, male flowers above, 

 females usually 1 — 3 : male calyx 5 — 8-parted, female 8 — 3- or 

 usually 6 — 5-parted, fructigerous one usually enlarged and sting- 

 ing : disc hypogynous or none : stamens 40—1 : filaments free or 

 central, more or less connate at the base : anthers ovoid, de- 

 hiscing lengthwise, introrse or extrorse : clefts perpendicular or 

 rarely subhorizontal : ovary 5-, or usually 3-eelled : styles 5 — 2, 

 simple, more or less papillose inside : capsules 5 — 2 — 1-coccous, 

 5 — 1-seeded : seeds globose. 



(1) T. MiQUBLiANA. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 942. 



Spec. Chae. Petioles much shorter than the limb : segments 

 of the female calyx 10 — 12-lacinulate, enlarged and hardened when 

 in fruit : ovary very shortly tomentose, and at the sauie time 

 sparingly hairy or otherwise : styles connate for half their length 

 and beyond into a slender cylindric column, free portion revolute. 



Var, a, bicoloe. — TJndershrub s stems twining, hispid above 



