261 



(5) C. ECHTDNOCABPA. ( Alph. JDec.j 



Dec. 1. c. p. 112. 



Spec. Chak. Toimger branches glabrous : leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acnminate, entire, or 1 — 3 toothed towards the apex, ^younger 

 ones finely puberulous beneath ; female spites equalling the leaf : 

 flowers solitary : bracts round: fruit globose, ashy-velvet, 1-seeded: 

 prickles conical, acute, somewhat scattered, short, simple, echinate. 



Khasia mountains. 



ORDER CL. JUGLAXDACE^. 



Flowers uaisexual: males on axillary aments, females on 

 terminal spikes, occasionally both mixed on a single panicle : 

 male calyx 2 — 6-parted, adnateto a scale-liked bract: stamens 

 3-36: filaments free, very short: anthers erect, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing lengthways : female flowers terminal, clustered and 

 surrounded with small bracts, or in lax racemes enclosed in a 

 1 -flowered involucre : calyx connate with the ■ ovary, cup- 

 shaped, 3-many toothed at the apex : corolla 4-toothed : ovary 

 2 — 4-celled at the base, 1-oelled at the apex : style short : 

 stigmas 2, seldom 4 : drupe 1-stoned, fleshy or membranaceous, 

 indehiscent or irregularly cleft or dehiscing by four valves : 

 seed erect, without albumen, smooth or wrinkled, 2 — 4-lobed 

 and divided by partial dissepiments cut into it: cotyledons 

 fleshy, oily, sinuous : radicle superior, very short. — Trees with 

 alternate pinnate leaves : stipules none : flowers inconspicuous. 



GENTJS I. ENGELHAKDTIA. 



Monoecia Pentandvia. Sex; Syst: , 



Geit. Char. Inflorescence sometimes paniculately branched, 

 lateral branches male amentiform, terminal one female, spiciform: 

 sometimes the male part consisting of 2 — 4-axUlary aments growing 

 on a common rhachis, the female part spiciform, terminal or axillary: 

 perianth of the male sessUe flower adnate to a 3-toothed or lobed 

 bract, usually 3 — 6-lobed, elongated, anterior lobe opposite the 

 bract, 4 lateral, 1 posterior opposite the rhachis often abortive: 

 stamens 5 — 13, filaments very short: female flowers very numerous, 



