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flowering : styles shortly connate at the base : capsules sulcately 

 S-lobei : seeds subglobose : flowers greenish. 



Salt marshes of the Sunderbunds and Bombay. Flowering in 

 the hot season. 



Var. Camettia. — Dec. 1. c. p. 1221. — Leaves ovate or elliptic : 

 spikes as in the former : capsules and seeds nearly 3 times larger. 

 — E. Camettia, Willd. — E. Agallocha, Sook. Comp. II. t. 30. 

 Wight's Icon. t. 1865. Bheede Mai. V. t. 45. 



Travancore backwaters and other salt marshes in the Peninsula. 

 Flowering in the hot season. The juice is highly poisonous, and 

 should be cautiously handled, as it produces serious inflammation 

 and pain. 



GENUS XLII. . DALECHAMPIA. 



moncecia Icosandria. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. In honour of James Dalechamp, a French botanist of 

 the sixteenth century. 



Gew. Chab. Flowers of either sex enclosed in a compressed, 

 2-leaved, bisexual involucre : segments of the male calyx valvafe, 

 of the- female imbricated: petals none: male disc none, females 

 seldom developed : stamens central on a convex receptacle : anthers 

 2-cleft : cells adnate lengthways : rudimentary ovary none : cells 

 of the ovary 1-ovuled : fruit capsular : seeds ecarunculate ; coty- 

 ledons flattened. — Shrubs, seldom erect,.usuallytwiningand scan- 

 dent : leaves alternate, bistipulate, petioled, feather-nerved or 

 palmati-nerved, undivided or divided into lobes or segments, or 

 even in petioled leaflets, commonly membranaceous : flowers monce- 

 cious, axillary, peduncled : involucres commonly large, leafy, very 

 often paler than the leaves or more brightly coloured and more 

 membranaceous, strongly bistipulate, bearing at the same time in 

 the inflorescence female flowers below, males above : female invo- 

 lucels 3-flowered, males many-flowered, increased on the upper 

 side by pale, many-crested, waxy, sterile flowers : male calyx 4 — 5- 

 parted, female 5- — 12-parted, the segments of this more or less pin- 

 nately laciniated, of that entire : stamens 60 — 5, commonly about 

 20 : filaments connate into a longish column : anthers opening 

 extrorsely : ovary 3 — 4-celled, 3 — 4-ovuled : styles connate into a 

 cylindric or clavate column, which is obtuse or more or less 

 dilated or lobed at the apex : capsules 3 — 4-coccous, 3 — 4-seeded: 

 shells stifi", subglobose : seeds globose or ellipsoid or truncate : 

 cotyledons ovate. 



