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somewhat immersed in a navicular bract or seldom naked : 

 perianth none : stamens in the males solitary, few, and sustained 

 by a small bract at the base, or packed and imbricated, naked : 

 filament very short : anther 2-celled, cells linear, marginmg 

 the connectivum, dehiscing lengthwise, in the hermaphrodites 

 one stamen or three, conferruminate with the back of the 

 ovary: filaments keeled, connate at the base: lateral ones 

 smaller: anther 1-celled, furnished with a 1 celled anther, 

 the intermediate longer anther 2-celled, cells opposite, open 

 lengthways: ovary one, sessile, 1 -celled: ovule one, ortho- 

 tropal: stigma terminal, sessile, sulcate-emarginate or sub- 

 bilobed, deciduous : drupe baccate, sub-globose or triquetrous, 

 1-seeded, putamen thin, fragile : seed pendulous : testa mem- 

 branaceous : albumen copious, fleshy : embryo small, enclosed 

 m the apex of the albumen : radicle inferior opposite the point 

 of insertion of the seed from the diameter. 



GENUS I. CHLOEAWTHUS. 



Triandrta Monog^ynla. Sex: Syst: 



DervB. From Chhros, green, and Anthos, flower. 



Gen. Chab. Flowers loosely spiked, each braoteated : stamens 3, 

 inserted on. the ovary -dbore the base : filaments broadly dilated, 3- 

 lobed, middle lobe bearing a perfect 2-celled anther, each of the 

 lateral ones a 1-celled one : ovary ovate, 1-celIed : ovule pendulous : 

 stigma sub-capitate or depressed : drupe 1-seeded. — Annual herbs or 

 under-shrubs : branches nodosely jointed : leaves opposite, petioled, 

 entile or serrated, petioles dilated at the base, coimate with intra- 

 axillary stipules : spikes axillary or terminal, simple or branched. 



(1) C. Indicus. fR.W.J 

 Ident. "Wight's Icon. vi. t. 1945. 



Spec_ Chae. Shrubby, branched : leaves short-petioled, broad 

 oval, obtuse at both ends, crenately serrated, glabrous : peduncles 

 terminal, spicately panicled : flowers numerous, sessile. ' 



Station not given. 



GENUS II. 8AECANDEA. 



monandpia IMonog'yiiia. Sex: Sytti 



Beriv. From Sa/rio flesh, and Aner, and/ros, male, iu allusion to 

 the fleshy filament. 



