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(1) C. EatnsETrFouA. [Forst.) 



Ident. Forst. Gen. pi. Austr. p. 103. — Dec. prod. xvi. s. 2. 

 p. 338. 



S'yn. C. litorea, Rumph. C. africana. Lour. C. muricata, Roxb. 

 C. lateriflora, Poir. C. litoraKs, SaUsh. 



Ikgrm. Forst. 1. c. fig. 52. Lam. ILL. t. 746. Miq. Eev. t. 6. 

 Eumph. Amb. III. t. 57. 



Spec. Chab. Large tree : leaves verticeUed, furrowed, jointed : 

 joints ending in a cup in which the next joint sits:' male amenta 

 cylindric, terminating the leaves : Bcaleg 6-8 in a verticil, united at 

 the base, pointed and wooUy : flowers as many as desirous in the 

 verticil: coroUa consisting of two opposite boat-shaped ciliated 

 scales : filaments single : female flowers on a different tree : aments 

 oval, short-peduncled : scales 6-8 in a verticU, with a single flower 

 between each : coroUa none : cones oval, size of a nutmeg, armed 

 with the sharp points of the 2-valved capsule : seeds small, with a 

 large wedge-shaped membranaceous wing : flowers greenish. 



Chittagong, and from thence spreading over the coasts of the 

 Peninsula. Fowering in the hot season. 



ORDER CLIV. GNETACE^. 



Flowers moncEcious or dicecious on cylindric capituliform 

 catkins, bracts decussately opposite ,; Male flowers. — 

 Perianth tubular, soon transversely 2-valved from the top : 

 stamen erect from the centre, solitary, or more coalescing into 

 an undivided column or branched from the apex : anthers 1 — 

 4-celled, cells contiguous or separated, adnate, and open from 

 the apex towards the base. Female flowers naked or clothed 

 with a 2-leaved involucre : ovary sessile, 1 -celled: ovule one, 

 erect : orthotropal : fruit sub-drupaceous, enclosed in the 

 leaflets of the involucre, or naked : seed one : testa membra- 

 naceous : albumen copious, fleshy : embryo antitropal in the 

 axis of the albumen : radicle superior, cylindric. 



GENUS I. GNETTJM. 

 nioiiceeia monaiidria. Sex-. Sysu 



Deriv. From the word Gnemon, the name of the plant in the 

 Island of Temate. 



Gen. Chab. Flowers dioecious or monoecious in the same 

 verticils : catkins cylindric, interruptedly verticiUed, jointed, each 



