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1-ovuled : fruits suberose-fleshy, not opening as a capsule : seeds 

 ecarunculate with copious albumen. — Tree : leaves opposite : 

 flowers dioecious, racemose: male calyx 3— 4-parted, female 

 unequaUy 3— 4i-parted : stamens numerous, about 80 : filaments 

 free : anthers opening vertically lengthways, outer or lower ones 

 distinctly introrse : ovary 3 — 4i-celled, cells 2 (where the ovary is 

 4-celled,) anterior and 2 posterior, when the ovary is 3-celled cells 

 sometimes anterior, sometimes the posterior ones reduced into 

 1 : styles shortish : stigmas equal to the number of cells, elongated, 

 simple, strongly papillose within : seeds exarillate. 



(1) T. NTTDIPLOEA. {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Spec, append, p. 1661. — Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. 

 p. 953.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. -p. 887. 



8yn. Tetragastris ossea, Qcsrtn. — Trewia macrophylla, Both. — 

 Eottlera Indica, Willd. — E. Hoperiana, Bl. Sched. ex Baill. Mud. 

 qen. Ewph.f. 423. 



Migrav. "Wight's Icon. 1. 1870-71.— Baill. 1. c. 1. 18. figs. 18—23. 

 — Gsertn. fruct. II. t. 109. fig. 5.— Ad. Juss. tent. Euph. t. 9. 

 fig. 29.— Eheede Mai. 1. 1. 42. 



Spec. Chae. Large tree : stipules linear- subulate, very cadu- - 

 cous : leaves broad ovate, acute or acuminate, cordate or obtuse 

 or subcuneate at the base, entire, 5-nerved, membranaceous, 

 biglandular at the base, young ones villous or pubescent on 

 both sides and below, especially in the lower part, sprinkled with 

 gold-shining, very small, waxy glands, but soon altogether desti- 

 tute of them : racemes axillary, males often exceeding the leaves, 

 flower-bearing almost the whole length, females few-flowered : 

 bracts very small : male calyx globose : segments of the female 

 calyx long-acuminate, here and there cohering in pairs : anthers 

 emarginate at the base and apex : ovary pale tawny, silky : fruit 

 4 — 3-coccous, subglobose, smooth, pendulous : seeds smooth. 



In sandy places near the shore and elsewhere in the Peninsula, 

 riowering in February and March. 



GENUS XXIX. MALLOTUS. 

 Dioecia Polyandria. Sex .- Syst : 



GfES. Chae. Male calyx valvate : petals none : disc in the 

 female flowers none, or very rarely developed in the males : stamens 

 inserteS on an elevated dilated centre : rudimentary ovary none : 

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

 albumen copious : cotyledons broad, far exceeding the radicle. — 

 Trees and shrubs : leaves alternate or opposite, bistipulate, some- 

 times peltate at the base, occasionally lobed, sprinkled beneath 

 with shining or afterwards brown or rufescent disc-shaped glands ; 

 flowers dioecious or rarely monoecious, racemose or spiked : in- 

 florescences terminal or spuriously axillary: male calyx 3 — 5- 



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