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GBNTJS XXXIX. GELONITJM. 



Dicecia Polyandria. Sex: Syst : 



Gen. Chae. Calycine segments imbricated : petals none : 

 male disc extrastaminal (often suppressed) : stamens occupying 

 the centre on an eleyated receptacle : anthers 2-cleft : cells adnate 

 nearly the whole length: rudimentary ovary none : cells of the 

 ovary 1-ovuled : fruit at length capsular : seeds ecaruneulate. — . 

 Small trees and shrubs : leaves bifariously alternate or rarely 

 opposite, bistipulate, shortly petioled," feather-nerved, entire or 

 toothed, thinly coriaceous, very often pale green : flowers dioecious, 

 fascicled, commonly very numerous, fascicles leaf-opposed or 

 axillary in the opposite-leaved species : segments of both calyces 

 quincuncial, broadly imbricated, often unequal, very tenacious : 

 disc of male flowers usually none, female urceolar, often associated 

 with antheriferous staminodes : stamens more or less numerous, 

 6 — 60 : filaments free, mixed with the glands of the receptacle : . 

 clefts of the anthers introrse : ovary 3 — 2-celled, seldom 4-celled : 

 stigmas sessile, 3 — 2-cleft : fruit fleshy-eapsular, 3 — 2-coccous, 

 3 — 2-seeded or by abortion 1-seeded : testa nearly always smooth. 



(1) G. MTJLXiriOETJM. (Adr. Juss.) 



Merit. Adr. Juss. Tent. Euph. p. 111. — Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. 

 p. 1127. 



Sgn. Or. fasciculatum, Eoocl. Flor. Ind. III. p. 832.— Sure- 

 gada multiflora, Baill. Etud. gin. Euph. p. 396. 



Engrav. Bot. Mag. t. 3231.— Adr. Juss. 1. c. t. 10. fig. 31 a. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree, glabrous : leaves lanceolate-elliptic, 

 acute at both ends, entire or with few teeth below the apex, 

 yellowish-green : flowers numerous, arranged in oblong subrace- 

 miform fascicles : stigmas flattish, 2-cleft, the segments obversely 

 triangular, cut, and many-cleft or lobed : ovary 3-celled. 



Coromandel. Near Pondicherry. 



(2) G. LAKCEOLATUM. {WUld.) 



Ident. Willd. spec. pi. IV. p. 832.— Dec. 1. c. p. 1127.— Eoxb. 

 flor. Ind. III. p. 831. 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. t. 1867. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree, very much branched : leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or subobtuse, acute at the base, entire, stifiish, 

 glabrous: female flowers thickly pedicelled, younger ones re- 

 sinous : stamens very numerous : ovary 3-celled : styles 2-cleft, 

 thick, lobes spreading, crenately roughish or entire : ovary ovoid, 

 glabrous : capsules warty. 



