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Gen-. Chah. Bracts of the catkin undivided : stamens 2—^5 :■ 

 filaments free or cohering at the base, seldom connate into a column : 

 ovary 1 -celled: ovules numerous, anatropal : style very short, 

 stigmas 2, bilobed : capsule 1-oeUed, 2-valved : seeds comose. — Tall 

 trees or shrubs growing in moist places near the banks of streams : 

 leaves alternate, entire, serrate or quite entire, stipules leafy 

 persistent, or scaly deciduous ; buds covered with a simple scale : 

 catkins sessile or peduncled. 



(1) S. TETKASPEEMA. (Boxl.) 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 753. — Dec. prod. xvi. s. 2 

 p. 192. 



Syn. S. ichnostachya, R. W. 



Engrm. Wight's Icon. t. 1953. — 4. — Eoxb. Cor. I. t. 97. 



Spec. Chae. Catkins lateral, peduncled, male long, lax and 

 few-flowered : female cylindric, rather dense, elongated : peduncle 

 3 — 6-leaved : scales oblong, spathulate, puberulous : capsule long- 

 pedicelled, ovoid, glabrous : leaves lanceolate, elongated, long- 

 acuminate, glaucous beneath, quite entire or serrulated. 



Rivulets on the Ghauts, and other similar places in the Peninsula, 

 flowering in the hot and rainy season. 



Neilgherries. Khasia hUls. Oude. 



(2) S. UKOPHTLLA. {Lindl.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. 1. c. p. 194. — Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 5. 

 Syn. S. Zollingeriana, Miq. flor. Ind. Bat. I. 2. p. 462. 



Spec. Chak. Tree : aments peduncled, supported by small leaves, 

 erect, curved, at first dense-flowered : scales ovate-rotund, densely 

 hoary-pilose : capsules ovate-lanceolate, quite glabrous, brownish : 

 pedicel 2 — 3-times exceeding the nectary : style short : stigmas 

 thick, curved outwards : leaves lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, 

 softly hirsnte with a few hairs, above at least afterwards glabrate. 



Oude. 



ORDER GLII. MTRICACEiE. 



Shrubs or small trees : leaves alternate, simple, entire, 

 serrated, or cut, seldom quite entire, sprinkled with resinous 

 dots : stipules none or fugacious : flowers sessile, in axillary or 

 terminal, simple or panieulately racemose, monoecious or 

 dioecious catkins, solitary between concave bracts: males in 



