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tately at the back about the middle: cells 4, 2 on each side, 

 distinct, opening somewhat crossways round the point opposite 

 the insertion : rudimentary ovary none : cells of the ovary 2 — 3j 

 1-ovuled: fruit capsular: seeds ecarunculate : cotyledons large, 

 much longer than the radicle. — Shrubs : leaves alternate, sub- 

 ulate-bistipulate, toothed, beneath near the base sub-urceolately 

 2 — 6-glandular : flowers dioecious : inflorescences axillary : female 

 flowers loosely racemose or solitary, and long-pediceUed in the 

 axils of the leaves : males interruptedly glomerato-spicate or 

 fascicled racemose or paniculate: female calyx 3 — 4-parted: 

 stamens numerous, arranged in about 6 verticils, and in 8 — 15 

 vertical rows : filaments free, dilated at the base : connectivum 

 very often produced beyond the cells, and more darkly coloured 

 than the anthers : styles 2 — 3, filiform, 2-cleft or parted, papillose 

 within : capsules 2 — 3-coccous : - seeds exariUate, subglobose : 

 cotyledons cordate at the base. 



(1) 0. JATASicrM. (^Blume.) 



Ident. Bl. bijdr. p. 613.— Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 987. 



Syn. Rottlera uranda. Dale. Bomb.flor. p. 230. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : stipules long-acuminate, soon deciduous : 

 leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, acute at both ends or 

 acuminate at the apex, repand-toothed : flowers racemose, fasci- 

 cled: female pedicels thickened at the apex, thinly clavate : fila- 

 ments not dilated at the base : segments of the female calyx 

 triangular, acute, ciliated at the margin : vertical rows of anthers 

 about 12 — 15 : styles connate at the base into a longish column, 

 free portion 2-cleft beyond the middle : ovary 2-celled, cells 

 lateral : female flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves : capsule 

 large, thick-skinned : seeds smooth, pale, globose. 



Malabar. Concan. Bengal. Mowering in November. 



GENUS XXXI. MACAEANGA. 

 Dicecla Polyandria. Sex .- Syst : 



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

 none: stamens central on a convex receptacle; anthers not ar- 

 ranged regularly in vertical rows, fixed by the back, 3— 4-celled, 

 connectivum incomplete, shorter than the cells: rudimentary 

 ovary none : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled : fruit capsular : seeds 

 not carunculate, albuminous: cotyledons broad, much longer 

 than the radicle. — Trees : leaves alternate, often bistipulate, more 

 or less peltate at the base, often sprinkled beneath with waxy 

 glands: flowers dioecious, glomerate or fascicled, arranged in 

 spikes or simple or paniculately branched axillary racemes: 

 stamens below 15, in some species very few : younger fruit com- 

 monly a little fleshy, opening as a capsule when ripe, unarmed or 

 variously armed. 



