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round or subtruncated, obtuse at the apex, about three and a half 

 times longer than broad, crenately toothed, rufescent beneath: 

 connectiva reddish : ovaries pubescent. 



Peninsula. Malabar. Concau. 



(2) H. EiPAEiA. (Lom.) 



Ident. Lour. Plor. Cochinch. p. 637.— Dec. 1. c. p. 1023. 



Syn. Adelia neriifolia, Roth. Soxb. flor. Ind, III. p. 849. — 

 Eicinus salicinus, jHasas^.] PI. Jav. Bar. p. 264!. — Hsematosper- 

 mum saUcinum, JBaill. Mud. gen. Huph, p. 298. 



Unffrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1868. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, subacute at 

 the base, very often entire, wUlow-like, beneath sparingly pubes- 

 cent and scurfy : inflorescences long, many-flowered, erect, slen- 

 der : segments of the female calyx persistent, Ovate-lanceolate : 

 stigmas longer than the capsule, shortish papillose : ovary and cap- 

 sule here and there muricated, small, pubescent. 



Khasia. Coromaudel. Concan and Deccan rivers, ^lowering 

 in the hot season. 



GENUS XXXIII. JATEOPHA. 

 Honcecia Hoiiadelpliia. Sex: St/st: 



Beriv. Prom latron, a remedy, and Phagein, to eat. Some 

 species are used in medicine, others as food. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx of either sex imbricated : petals alternating 

 with the sepals, developed or suppressed : glands of the disc oppo- 

 site the sepals, alternating with the petals or their empty place : 

 anthers 2-eleft : cells free below, inserted a little below the middle : 

 cells of the ovary 1-ovuled, 1 behind : fruit capsular : seeds carun- 

 culate: cotyledons flattened, broad, palmately nerved: radicle 

 short. — Prutescent, seldom arborescent plants : leaves alternate, 

 bistipulate, commonly long-petioled, entire or lobed : flowers 

 monoecious, commonly corymbosely panicled : panicles bisexual, 

 dichotomouslybranched,bearing female flowers in the forks: calyces 

 quincuncial : petals, when developed, free and slightly imbricated 

 at the margin : stamens 6 — 2-verticiilate : filaments connate below : 

 anthers extrorsely or introrsely 2-cleft : staminodes 8 — 10, situated 

 within the hypbgynous disc : ovary 3-celled: styles equal in number 

 to the cells of the ovary, connate below, free portion once or twice 

 2-cleft: capsules. 4 — 2-coccous. 



