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and tawny-tomentose ; leaves lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, slightly 

 cordate at the base, sharply serrulate, stiffish, lower side of the 

 younger ones and apex of the branches rusty-tomentose, then 

 pale, developed leaves firm, densely tomentose beneath, and then 

 hairy-pubescent : male bracts sublinear, tawny-villous : ovary not 

 hirsute : seeds scaly, tumidly bilabiate at the apex. 



NeUgherries. 



Var. h. irificoLOE. — ^Younger parts not rusty, puberulous, and 

 at the same time somewhat covered with snow-white hairs : leaves 

 more membranaceous, subglabrous, and longer petioled. 



Malabar. Concan. 



(2) T. iNYonroEATA. (MiiUer.) 



Ment. Dec. 1. e. p. 943. 



Spec. Chae. Segments of the female calyx pinnately about 

 8 — 12-laciaulate, enlarged and hardened when in fruit : lacinulse 

 narrow, spreading, afterwards connivent by the dorsal side of the 

 segments : ovary strigosely hispid : styles somewhat free, oblong- 

 ovoid, obtuse : capsules large : seeds scaly, tumidly bilabiate at 

 the apex. 



Var. a. Eheedtaka. — IJndershrub, perennial or annual : stems 

 hispid : stipules almost equalling the shorter petioles, lanceolate 

 from a broad-ovate or cordate, equal or unequal, or somewhat 

 hastately bilobed base : leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, serrated or 

 toothed, entire at the apex, more or less hirsute, lower ones shorter 

 acuminate or obtuse, upper ones long acuminate or cuspidate : 

 male bracts narrowed at the base : segments of male calyx very 

 hispid : capsules deeply tridymous, whitiah-hispid. — T. involucrata, 

 Jaeg[. Ictm. rar. t. 190.— Bheecle Mai. II. t. 39. 



Perdnsula. Malabar. 



Var. h. CATTCiTABiiirA. — Undershrub or perennial : all leaves pal- 

 mately 3-parted, _ partitions linear-lanceolate, or lateral ones 

 obliquely linear-elliptic, coarsely serrated. — T. Cannabina, Linn. 

 Swppl. p. 4il5.—Willd. Spec. IV. p. 326. Ad. Juss. Tent. Muph. 

 t. 15. fig. 49. — Croton hastatus, Linn. Syst. JSd. 13. p. 722. — C. 

 urens, Linn. I. c. Pluk. Aim. Phyt. t. 120. fig. 6. 



Malabar. Western Grhauts. Flowering nearly all the year. 



GENUS XXVIII. TEEWIA. 

 nionoecia Polyandria. Sex: Si/st: 



Leriv. In honour of C. J. Trew, of Nuremberg, a botanical 

 author. 



Gen. Chae. Male calyx valvate, female imbricated : petals and 

 disc none : stamens inserted on a hemispherical receptacle, central : 

 anthers 2-cleft : rudimentary ovary Hone : cells of the ovary 



