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GENUS III. CUBEBA. 



Dioecla Pentandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gbw. Chae. Flowers dioecious, amentaceous, sessile. Males. 

 Bracts oblong, sessile, imbricated : stamens 2—5 : filaments taper- 

 ing,^ anthers ovate or remform. Ebmales. Bracts peltate, sub- 

 sessile, persistent, oblong or orbiculate, often hairy beneath : germen 

 sessile, ovate : stigmas 3 — 6, sessile, short, thick, hispidulous above : 

 berries with a constricted base spuriously pedicelled, sub-globose, 

 pericarp thin : seed roundish, integument coriaceo-membranaceous, 

 or homy : albumen mealy. — Small trees or scandent shrubs : leaves 

 petioled, 3-many -nerved or ribbed, glabrous or pubescent : aments 

 leaf-opposed at the cauldine knots, males slender, females stronger, 

 finictiferous ones simulating a raceme. 



(1) C. Wallichh (Mi^.J 



Ident. Miquel. Syst. Piper. 285. * 



Migrwo. "Wight's Icon, t, 1932. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves not dotted,' oblong, slightly unequal-sided, 

 acute, deeply cordate, equal at the base, lobes rounded, 9 to 13- 

 plinerved, the three middle nerves remote from the base : berry- 

 bearing catkins spreading, thick, berries globose, a little produced 

 at the apex by the remains of the stigma, pedicel thickened 

 upwards. 



Malabar. 



GENUS IV. CHAVICA. 

 Itioeeia DIandria. Sex: Syst; 



Deriv. The Malabar name Latinised. 



Gen. Chae. Elowers dioecious, very densely amentaceous, amenta 

 leaf-opposed, those bearing pistils thicker : bracts stalked, peltate, 

 persistent, leaf round or rhomboid, coriaceous. Males. Bracts 

 short, stamens 2 lateral, seldom 3 — 4 : filaments short, anthers ovate 

 sub-globose, connectivum thickish. Femat.es. Germen sessile, oval, 

 angular : stigmas 3 — 6, sessile, cuspidate, short, thick, puberulous 

 above : berries closely sessile on the tumid rhachis, polygonous, 

 pulpy, umbonate with the rudiments of the stigmas : seed oblong 

 or lenticular, integument crustaceous, very finely pitted, shining : 

 albumen granular mealy, sometimes homy at the circumference. — i 

 Scandent shrubs : leaves alternate, petioled, cordate-rounded, ovate, 

 oblong, lanceolate, equilateral or oblique, coriaceous or membran- 

 aceous, glabrous or pubescent, ribbed, multiple or digitinerved, often 

 different on the same stem, stipuled : aments leaf-opposed, peduncled, 

 dioecious, cylindric or very rarely globose, berry-bearing ones 

 swollen : bracts coloured, berries horizontal. 



