197 



cloton ellipticus, Hoehst. in Flora Eatish. p. 85. Baill. Etud. — 

 Stillingia Indica, Baill. Etud. p. 513. — S. bingyrica, do. 



Enqrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1950.— Baill. 1. c. t. 8. fig. 17. and 

 t. 6. figs. 11, 12. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : leaves short-petioled, membrana- 

 ceous, lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, serrate 

 or serrulate, 2 — 4-glandular at the base : stipules ovate-lanceolate : 

 bracts triangular-ovate, acute, puberulous : glands deeply undu- 

 lately furrowed : styles slender : male flowers 3 — 5 in the axil of 

 each bract, all pedicelled, exceeding the bract : pedicels slightly 

 hairy : segments of both calyces lacero-denticulate : females with 

 many glands inside at the base: stamens 3: ovary 3 — 2-C6lled: 

 capsules globose, woody, scarcely tridymous : seeds smooth. 



Coromandel. Concan. Assam. Bengal. Flowering nearly 

 all the year. 



(5) E. opposiTiroLiA. (Jack.) 



Ident. Jack in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. 4. p. 386. — Dec. 

 1. c. p. 1219. 



Syn. Stillingia oppositifolia, Baill. I. o. p. 518. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : stipulates subulate-acuminate, with 

 a scariose brown, broad-ovate base : leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, crenate-dentate : male 

 spikes shorter than the leaves, forming, on account of the many- 

 rowed imbricated bracts, a cylindric catkin, densely floriferous 

 from base to apex : bracts stiff, thick, brown, callosely mucronate, 

 slightly exceeding the flowers : male calyx subsessile, bibracteo- 

 late : sepals free. 



Mysore, Concan, and Malabar. 



(6) E. AeALLOCHA. {duller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1221. — Linn. Spec. p. 1451. — Eoxb. flor. 

 Ind. III. p. 756. 



Syn. Commia Cochiuchinensis, Lov/r. — Stillingia Agallocha, 

 Baill. Etud. I.e. p. 518. 



Enqrav. Lam. Illustr. t. 805. — Bauer Illustr. pi. Norf. t. 182. 

 — Kumph. Amb. vol. II. t. 79—80. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree or shrub : leaves ovate or elliptic, 

 obtuse at the base, entire or crenate-serrulate : male spikes amen- 

 tiform, dense-flowered, cylindric : female racemes shorter than the 

 male spikes, and in separate branches, both axillary, solitary or 

 rarely twin or ternate : bracts destitute of distinct glands, but 

 everywhere glandulosely thickened : male calyx sessile, covered by 

 the bract : female sepals ovate, acuminate, with one gland on both 

 sides of the base inside : stamens 3 : anthers long-exserted afcer 



