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lanceolar, entire, acuminate : female glomerudes axillary, small, 

 globular. 



CMttagong, flowering in the cold season. 



(6) U. BicoLOE. (Roxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 589. 



Spec. Chae. Shrubby : leaves alternate, short petioled, lanceo- 

 late, serrate, 3-nerved, scabrous above, hoary underneath : glome- 

 rules axUlary, sessUe. 



Mountains of BareiUy. 



(7) U. TEINEETIA. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 582. 



Spec. Chae. Shrubby: leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, crenate, 

 3-nerved : panicles axillary, the length of the petioles. 



Chittagong, flovrering in April. 



(8) U. iN^aEauALiPOLiA. (Roxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 594. 



Spec Chae. Shrubby, erect, hispid: leaves alternate, sessile, 

 unequally falcate, lanceolate, entire, acuminate : glomerules 

 axillary. 



Chittagong, flowering in April. 



GEliTCrS XI. POUZOLZIA. 



Monoeeia. Pentandrla. Sex: Syst-. 



Gen. Char. Flowers monoecious, rarely dioecious. Male. Pe- 

 rianth 4 — 5, rarely 3-parted : stamens 4 — 5, rarely 3 : rudimentary 

 pistil minute or wanting. Female. Perianth tubular, contracted 

 at the apex, persistent, enclosing the seed or nut, at maturity sul- 

 cately ribbed or 2 — 3 — 4- winged, bidentate at the apex : style 

 short or none : stigma prolonged, filiform, glandulose on one side : 

 nut ovate, crustaceous, fragile : seed erect, sparingly albuminous : 

 embryo axile, inverse : radicle cylindric, remote from the hilum. — 

 Herbaceous, sufEmticose or shrubby plants, creeping, procumbent, 

 ascending or erect : leaves ternately verticelled, opposite or alternate, 

 entire or rarely serrated, 3-nerved, or triple or quintuple-nerved, 

 variously pilose, very rarely glabrous : flowers axillary, glomerate, 

 short-pediceUed : clusters at first nearly all males mixed with few 

 sessile, ovate, ribbed wingless fruits, afterwards towards the end of 

 the floriferous branches, the male flowers diminish in number and 

 are replaced by female ones producing winged fruit. 



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