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GrEw. Chae. Flowers sessile in a boat-shaped bract: perianth, 

 none : stamen one, inserted on the ovary : filament thick and fleshy : 

 anther introrse, 2-celled : ovary 1 -celled with a single pendulous 

 ovule : stigma sessile, depressed : drupe 1 -seeded : embryo enclosed 

 in fleshy albumen : radicle inferior. 



(1) S. CHLOBAJTTHorDES. ( Gardner. J 



Ident. Gardn. in Calc. Journ. vi. p. 348. 



Ingram. "Wight's Icon. t. 1946. 



Spec. Chae, Shrubby : branches nodosely articulated : leaves 

 opposite, petioled, penninerved, coarsely glanduloso-aerrate : petioles 

 uniting at the base into a short, stem-clasping sheath : inflorescence 

 terminal, paniculately spiked. 



Pulney mountains. Courtallum. 



ORDER CXLVIII. PIPERACEiE. 



Perennial herbs, seldom annual, succulent, stem scarcely 

 any or usually branched, erect or creeping, or shrubs very 

 often scandent, seldom arborescent, nodosely branched : leaves 

 alternate, opposite or vertjcelled, petioled or very seldom 

 sessile, quite entire, fleshy, coriaceous or membranaceous : 

 stipules in some plants none, in others petiolar, twin, free or 

 adnate, deciduous or persistent : flowers arranged on peduncled, 

 axillary, solitary, filiform, cylindric or globose aments, densely 

 packed, lax, most frequently sessile, each supported by a 

 bract, but destitute of a perianth, naked : stamens most fre- 

 quently 2, situated at either side of the germen, seldom 3 — 5j 

 sometimes 10: filaments deciduous or persistent, thin or thick, 

 free or adnate to the base of the germen, sometimes very short: 

 anthers extrorse, 2-celled, oblong, ovate or reniform, cells 

 apposite or opposite, or adnate lengthways. to the connectivum, 

 dehiscing lengthways : germen one, 1-celled : style none or 

 cylindric, simple: stigma one, sessile, simple, penicillate, or 

 stigmas 2 — 6, thick, lanceolate or oblong: berries without 

 juice or pulpy, distinct or cohering in masses, oblong, globose, 

 3 — 4-gonal, sometimes cuneiform : seed erect from the basp, 

 integument membranaceous, coriaceous or sub-crustaceous, 



