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MENTIS XXXV. GIVOTIA. 

 Dioeda Dodecandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chab. Male and female calyx imbricated : petals alter- 

 nating with the sepals : disc situated between the petals : stamens 

 central on a convex receptacle : anthers 2-cleft : cells adnate the 

 whole length, fixed by the back: cells of the ovary 1-ovuled: 

 fruit not opening as a capsule, destitute of a central column : en- 

 docarp indehiscent, bony : seeds ecarunculate : albumen copious. 

 — Tree: leaves alternate, long-petioled, densely tomentose to- 

 gether with all the young parts : flowers dioecious, panicles ter- 

 minal, many -flowered, peduncled : calyces quincuncial : stamens 

 about 15 : clefts of the anthers longitrorse : rudimentary ovary 

 none : ovary 3 — 2-ceiled : styles 3 — 2, connate at the base, 2-cleft : 

 fruit fleshy, by abortion 1-celled, 1-seeded : seeds not spuriously 

 arillate : cotyledons cordate at the base. 



(1) Gr. EOTTIiEBII'OEMIS. {,Oriff.) 



Ident. Griffith Plant. Hort. Calc— Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 

 1112. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1889. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree, much branched: leaves orbicular- 

 ovate, acuminate, coarsely repand-toothed, membranaceous, stel- 

 lately tomentose, above afterwards glabrescent, indumentum at 

 first whitish, then tawnyish or somewhat rusty : petioles with few 

 glands above the middle: panicles exceeding the leaves, alter- 

 nately bearing branches: bracts long, linear: segments of the 

 calyx' obovate, glabrous within : petals obovate : hypogynous disc 

 urceolar, lobed, pubescent: filaments hairy at the base, about 

 twice as long "as the anthers : ovaty puberulous : styles stiff, 

 spreading, 2-cleft to the middle : fruit oblong-ellipsoid, minutely 

 ashy-tomentose : seeds globose-ellipsoid, smooth, pale. 



Subalpine forests. Malabar. Southern Mahratta country. 

 North Deccan, rare. 



GENUS XXXVI. CODI^UM. 



nfonoecia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Calyx of both sexes imbricated : petals, alternat- 

 ing with the sepals and glands of the extrastaminal disc : stameas 

 central, inserted on an elevated receptacle : anthers 2-cleft : rudi- 

 mentary ovary none: cells of the ovary 1-ovuled, alternatmg 

 with the inner sepals : fruit capsular : seeds carimculate.— Trees 

 or shrubs : leaves opposite, or more often alternate, penninerved, 

 entire : flowers moncecious : inflorescences terminal or axillary, 

 racemiform or rarely umbelliform, bisexual or rarely unisesal : 



