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sessile or very shortly pedieelled : a bract forming the outer perianth, 

 below cup-shaped connate at the base with the flower, above 4-lobed 

 much longer than the flower, externally villous at the basfe, 3 

 anterior lobes linear-lanceolate, posterior lobe opposite the rhachia 

 2-many crenated, auricle-shaped : cotyledons contortupKcate. 



(1) E. spicATA. fBlvme.J 



Ident. Bl. bijdr. p. 528. flor. Jav. t. 1. et. 5. — Dec. prod. xvi. 

 S. II. p. 140. 



Syn. E. Roxbnrghiana. Wall, in pi. as. rar. II. p. 85 t. 199. 

 Juglans pteracocea, Soxh. S. B. 



Spec. Chab. Tree : leaves about 5-pa,irs usually abruptly pin- 

 natisect: leaflets petioluled, stiff-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, un- 

 equally attenuated at the base, acuminated at the apex, acute, quite 

 entire : aments inserted on a common rachis : male flowers 

 puberulous outside: stamens 8 — 1'3 : anthers pubescent: spikes 

 growing from the prior young shoots : female flowers sessile, inter- 

 mediate lobe of the outer perianth twice as long as the lateral ones. 



Khasia. Chittagong. 



ORDER CLI. SALICACEiE. 



Flowers dioecious arranged in catkins on terminal branch- 

 lets, sessile or shortly pedieelled, supported by a bract: — 

 Males. Perianth none : torus swelling into a gland or obliquely 

 truncated ring or urceolus : stamens exserted from the centre 

 of the disk, 2 or more: filaments filiform, free or monadelphous : 

 anthers 2 -celled: cells parallel, dehiscing lengthways: rudimen- 

 tary ovary none. Females. Perianth none : ovary free, sessile, 

 margins of the 2 carpels connate, or more or less inflexed : 

 ovules numerous, ascending, anatropal : styles two, more or 

 less connate, each terminated by a 2 — 3-lobed stigma: capsule 

 1 -celled, 2-valved, many-seeded, valves opening at the top, 

 afterwards revolute : seeds erect, small : testa membranaceous : 

 thread very short, thick : albumen none : embryo orthotropal : 

 radicle looking towards the base of the fruit. 



GEMIS I. SALIX. 



Dioecia Diandria'. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Sal, near, and Lis, water, Celtic; in allusion to the 

 piece of growth. 



