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ovate, long-acuminate, toothed, beset above close to the margin 

 with patelliform glands, males small, triangular-ovate, acuminate : 

 female calyx tubular-conical, soon separating at the base, mouth 

 entire: ovary globose, incurved, sojttly echinate, prickles soft, 

 hirsute : stigma very long, linear, recurved. 



Var. GENuiNA. — Tree : younger branchlets tawny-pubescent, 

 afterwards puberulous : stipules subulate : leaves broadly triangu- 

 lar-ovate, acuminate, sometimes obsoletely 3-lobed, rounded at the 

 narrow peltate or shortly inciso-cordate base, 3 — 7-nerved and 

 4 — 6-glandular at the base, softly puberulous above, beneath 

 dotted with waxy glands, and densely villous : female inflores- 

 cence long-peduncled, aU dense-flowered : stigmas hispid at the 

 back : seeds globose, wrinkled. — TJrtica involucrata, Boxb. e(o 

 Wall. Gat. — M. involucrata, Baill. Mud. gin. Bwph. p. 432. 



Bengal. 



GENUS XXXII. HOMONOYA. 



Dicecia Polyandria. Sex: Syst : 



Gen. Chae. Male calyx valvate, female imbricated ; petals 

 and disc none : stamens central, polyadelphous : anthers l-ceEed, 

 adnate, opening by a short cleft, subglobose : rudimentary ovary 

 none : cells of the ovary 1-ovuled, 2 anterior, 1 posterior : capsules 

 3-eoccous : seeds ecarunculate. — Shrubs : leaves alternate, bistipu- 

 late, entire or toothed, subcoriaceous : stipules very caducous : 

 inflorescences axillary, often unisexual, flower-bearing from the 

 base : male flowers spiked, females spicately racemose : bracts 

 commonly 1-flowered : male calyx 3-parted, female quincuncially 

 5-parted : stamens very numerous : bundles numerous, connate 

 below, congested and polyandrous at .the apex, central ones soon 

 destitute of anthers : cells of the ovary 3 — 4 : styles as many as 

 the cells,,simple, narrow, much and densely papillose, shortly con- 

 nate at the base; capsules 3-seeded, often small: seeds smooth, 

 with spurious membranaceous aril. 



(1) H, BET0SA. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in Linnsea vol. 34. p. 200. — Dec. prod. XV. 

 s. 2. p. 1022. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves sessile, sparingly scurfy beneath : male 

 inflorescences depauperated : segments of the female calyx ovate : 

 stigmas twice shorter than the capsule, longish papillose : ovary and 

 small capsule smooth. 



■ Var. a. GENtriNA. — Mull. Arg. 1. e. — Leaves cuneate-obovate, 

 retuse at the apex, about half longer than broad. — Adelia retusa, 

 WigUs Icon. t. 1869. 



Malabar. Concan. Deccan. Circars. 



Var. I. CTJNEATA. — Mull. Arg. 1.C, — Leaves lanceolate-spathulate, 



