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Peninsula. Balaghaut mountains. Bengal. Flowering in the 

 hot season. 



(3) G. ANGrsTiiOLiUM, (MuUer.) 



Var. ELLIPTICrM. 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1128. 



Spec. Chae. Undershrub: leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acute at 

 .both ends : flowers arranged in very short, few-flowered, aggre- 

 gated racemules : stamens 25 — 35 : ovary 3-celled : capsules 

 depresso-globose, smooth. 



Malabar. Travancore. 



GENUS XL. SEBASTIANIA. 



lUonceda Triandria. Sex : St/st : 



Gen. Chae. Calycine segments of either sex imbricated: 

 petals none : male disc none : stamens central : anthers 2-cleft : 

 cells adnate lengthways : rudimentary ovary none : cells of the 

 ovary 1-ovuled : fruit capsular, endowed with a central developed 

 columella: seeds carunculate: chalaza situated at the base. — 

 Undershrubs or shrubs, seldom trees : leaves alternate, bi- 

 stipulate, very often feather-nerved, and often more or less glandu- 

 larly toothed : herbaceous or seldom coriaceous : flowers very 

 seldom dioecious, spicately racemose : inflorescences terminal or 

 axillary, very often bisexual, females at the base, rest males : 

 female bracts l-flowered, males 1 — 3-flowered, loose or densely 

 imbricated : segments of the female calyx 3, furnished at the base 

 within with very small subulate-dentiform glands, or destitute of 

 them : stamens 2 — 8 : filaments almost free : anthers opening 

 extrorsely, more or less emarginate at both ends : ovary 3-celled, 

 smooth or tubercled or muricated: Styles 3, simple, shortly connate 

 or free below : capsules tricoccous, smooth or armed, dry, com- 

 monly tridymous : columella persistent : seeds smooth or rough : 

 caruncula peltately sessile, equal at the base, more or less thin : 

 cotyledons oblong-ovate or orbicular in copious albumen. 



(1) S. Cham^lea. (Muller.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 1175. 



Si/n. Tragia Chamselea, Linn. — Microstachys Chamaslea, Adr. 

 Jms. Tent. Huph. p. 49. — Cnemidostachys Chamselea, Bpreng. 8yst. 

 iii. ip. 835. — Elachocroton asperococcus, J*. Muell. in Hooh. 

 Journ. Bot. 1857, p. 17. — Stillingia asperococca, Baill. Htud. gSn. 

 Euph. p. 617. — Stillingia Chamselea, Baill. I. c. p. 516. — C. 

 linearifolia, Mig.flor. Ind. Bat. suppl. I. Sumatra, p. 460. 



Engrav. Eheede Mai. II. t. 34.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 25. 



