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GENUS I. I. COVELLIA. 



Monceoia monandpla. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Receptacle without an involucre, Tillous, throat 

 Bcaly, ebracteolate within, pilose: flowers on the same receptacle 

 bearing stamens superior, few, stamen hearing ones sessUe : perianth 

 3-leaved.: stamen one, filament cyUndric, anthers 2-celled, subro- 

 tund, cells contiguous at the base and apex, separated in the middle 

 by a connectivum : pistU-bearing flowers pedicelled : perianth 3 — 5 

 parted, unequal, sometimes very small: ovary sesale, 1 -celled: 

 style lateral, bearded above the middle : stigma" infundibuliform, 

 somewhat oblique, 2-toothed. — Leaves opposite or alternate. 



(1) C. aTTTTATA. f R.W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vi. t. 1966. 



Spec. Chab. Arboreous, scandent, the branches afterwards as- 

 cending : branches glabrous and smooth, younger ones pubescent : 

 leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate, 3-nerved, entire, villous beneath : 

 receptacles glomerate on the older branches, pubescent : perianth 6- 

 lobed : stigma dilated, ciliate, umbilicate. 



Orange VaUey, near Kotergherry, Neilgherries, on the banks of 

 the stream, flowering in August and September. 



(2) C. MACEOOAEPA. f R.W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. c, t. 1965. 



8yn. Pogonotrophe macrocarpa, MiqvA. 



Spec Chae. Arboreous, climbing : young parts pubescent : 

 leaves long-petioled, ovate, equal or somewhat unequal-sided, 

 abruptly narrow acuminate, rounded at the base, 3 — 5-nerved, 2 — 3- 

 costulate : receptacles glomerate, globose, pubescent, spotted : fruit 

 green, white-spotted, size of an orange. 



Pulney mountains, climbing on trees, in fruit during October. 



(3) C. opposiTiroLiA. (Gasp. J 



Ident. Gasparini Eio. 85. t. 8. fig. 36—42. 



Syn. Ficus oppositifolia, Willd. Roxl. flor. Ind. III. p. 561. 

 Sycomorphe Roxburghii, Miq. in Ann. so. nat. III. s. I. 35. 



Engrwo. Eoxb. Cor. II. t. 124.— Wight 1. c. t. 638. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree: trunk erect: young shoots scabrous, 

 and covered with much short white hair, fistulous and interrupted 

 at the insertion of the leaves, leaves opposite, short, round or oblong. 



