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verticil surrounded by eup-shaped involucre : flowers immersed in 

 fascicled paleae. — Males. Perianth 2-valved at the top : filament 

 simple or 2-cleft : anther 2-celled, didymous, cells dehiscing at the 

 apex hy an oblong pore. — Females. Mowers naked, destitute of a 

 proper involucre : ovary sessile : ovule solitary, erect : drupe baccate, 

 1 -seeded. 



(1) G. SCANBENS. (Roxb.) 



Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. 518. Dec. prod. xvi. s. 2. p. 351. 



8yn. Thoa edulis, Willd. 



Engrwo. "Wight's Icon. t. 1955.— Eheede Mai. vii. t. 22. 



Spec. Chak. Shrubby ; scandent : young shoots jointed and 

 swollen at the insertion of the leaves : leaves opposite, oblong, 

 glossy, entire : peduncles axiUary and terminal with 1-2 opposite 

 pair of cyUndric catkins, and a-terminal one : drupe oblong, reddish 

 orange when ripe : flowers small, greenish. 



Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries. Common in jungles on the 

 "Western Coast. Chittagong. Assam. Flowering in March and 

 April. 



ORDER CLV. CYCADACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs, resembling Palms : stMli cylindric, simple, 

 marked with the scars of fallen leaf-stalks : leaves pinnated, 

 usually circinate when young ; leaflets finely veined, somewhat 

 obliquely inserted on the petiole : calyx and corolla none : 

 male flowers collected in terminal cones, consisting of scales 

 covered over their lower side with 1 ^celled anthers, often 

 collected in two's or three's, splitting lengthways: female 

 flowers consisting of naked ovules placed beneath peltate 

 scales, at the base of flat ones, or on the margins of contracted 

 leaves : seeds bony : albumen fleshy or mealy : cotyledons 

 unequal, connate at the apex : radicle superior. 



GEITOS CYCAS. 



Dioeeia. loosandvia. Sex: Sysu 



Beriv. The Grreek name of a Palm said to grow in Ethiopia. 

 Ge^. Chak. Same as in, the Order, 



