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(1) C. CASTANEJECAEPrs. {Thwaites.') 



Ident. Thwaites Enum. pi. Zeyl. p. 275. — Dec, prod. XV. 8. 

 2. p. 1122. 



Syn. Adelia castanicarpa, Boxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 848. — C. 

 pungens, Thwaites in Sook. Jotirn. Bot. 1854.^. 301. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub or small tree : sometimes piiddle-sized or 

 even large : leaves lanceolate- ovate, acuminate^ acute at the base, 

 coriaceous, shortly puberulous, soon glabrate : sepals more or less 

 pubescent at the margin : capsules longer than the pedicels : seeds 

 black, shining. 



Silhet. Khasia. Chittagong. 



GENTJS XXXVIII. BALIOSPEEMFM. 



IHonoecia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. IVom Balios, spotted, and Sperma, a seed. 



GrEN. Chae. Calycine segments of both sexes imbricated: 

 petals none : disc of male flowers extrastaminal : stamens central 

 on an elevated receptacle : anthers 2-cleft, cells adnate the whole 

 length: rudimentary ovary none: cells of the ovary 1-ovuled: 

 fruit capsular : seeds carunculate : cotyledons broad : much ex- 

 ceeding the radicle. — Shrubs or perennial herbs, sprinkled with 

 a few adpressed hairs : leaves alternate, glandulosely bistipulate, 

 petioled, repand-toothed, biglandular at the lowest base of the 

 limb : flowers monoecious, axillary, very small : inflorescences 

 compactly panicuHform or racemiform, peduncled, above males or 

 sexes mixed, females at the base : rachis commonly densely and 

 minutely bracteate : fructigerous pedicels recurved : male calyx 

 5-parted : female disc urceolar : stamens 15 — 30, and more nume- 

 rous : anthers 2-cleft lengthways : ovary 3 — 4-celled : styles 3 — 4, 

 cohering at the base, spreading above, half 2-cleft : capsules 3- or 

 rarely 4-coccous, 3 — 4-seeded: warts small: testa of the seeds 

 smooth. 



(1) B. siNUATUM. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. iu Flora. Eatisb. (1864) p. 470. — Dec. prod. 

 XV. s. 2. p. 1125. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-spathulate, 

 sometimes simply acuminate, obtuse at the base, sometimes ob- 

 conicaUy dilated above and broadly sinuate-lobed : male panicles 

 racemiform, very long, at least exceeding the leaves, narrow : 

 branchlets distant, spreading horizontally: glands of the male 

 disc free. 



Near Mishnee, in Eastern Bengal. 



