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alternate, remote with a pubescent rhachia: male flowers with 

 an ovate puberulous bract : stamens 3 — 5, longer than the bract : 

 anthers glabrous : female flowers with a pear-shaped granular fruit, 

 nut very hard, attenuated at both ends. 



Khasia hills. 



ORDER CLIII. CASUARINAGE^. 



Trees : branches and branchlets verticillate, nodosely 

 jointed : leaves none : sheaths short, many-toothed, striated : 

 flowers monoecious or dioecious; males arranged in spikes, 

 females in termmal capitula: male flowers bursting from 

 within the uppermost sheaths of the branchlets, each furnished 

 at the base with a small, persistent bract: perigonium 

 2-Ieaved, stiffly membranaceous: bracteoles, occupying the 

 right and left side from the axis of the flower : leaflets less than 

 the bracteoles, first enclosed by them and cohering like a cup at 

 the apex, afterwards thrown off by the increasmg stamen: 

 stamen 1, central: filament at first very short, afterwards 

 elongated, filiform, thickened at the base: anther 2-celled, 

 incumbent: cells sub-opposite, dehiscing lengthways: female 

 flowers capitate in the apex of the branchlets, each sessile in 

 the axil of a persistent bract : bracteoles 2, navicular, at first 

 spreading, afterwards growing together at the base, at first 

 hiding the fruit: perigonium none: ovary sessile, lenticular- 

 compressed, 1-celled, 1-ovuled: style very short, terminal: 

 stigmas 2, filiform, elongated: fruit from the bracts and 

 bracteoles connate in the form of a cone : caryopsis compressed, 

 ending at the apex in a membranaceous wing: seed 1, 

 appended to the apex of the cell : albumen none : embryo 

 orthotropal : cotyledons oblong, flat : radicle very small. 



GENUS I. CASUAEIHiTA. 

 jmoiiceeia. monandvia. Sex: 

 Gen. Chak. Same as the Order. 



