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(1) C. ciBCiifALis. {Zinn.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 744.— Spreng. syst. III. p. 907. 

 Dec. prod. xvi. s. 2. p. 526. 



Migrav. Eheede Mai. III. t. 13. 21. Emnph. Ami), t. 22. 23. 

 Bot. Mag. 55. t. 2826-7. 



Spec. Chae. Trunk cyUndrioal, unbraached, surmounted with 

 a terminal bud, consisting of a male cone composed of peltate scales : 

 leaves pinnated, tborny, springing from tbe apex of the trunk. 



Malabar. South Concana. Forests near Triehore. Flowering 

 in May. 



ORDER CLVI. ROXBURGHIACEJE. 



Perianth 4-leaved, campanulate, persistent: leaflets cruciately 

 opposite (two exterior, two interior) distinct, almost equal, 

 ovate-lanceolate, narrow-acuminate, sut-caniculate, many- 

 nerved, externally green, inwardly coloured, inner ones a little 

 broader: stamens 4, inserted at the bottom of the perianth, 

 opposite the leaflets and shorter than them, erect: filaments 

 short, thick, connate at the base: anthers 2-ceUed, introrse, 

 connectivum continuous with the filaments : cells narrow, 

 bilocellate, adnate at either angle of the promiaent dissepiment 

 to the lower part of the connectivum, suddenly constricted 

 above and there empty up to the apex: ovary free, sessile, 

 obliquely ovate, obtuse, smooth, compressed, 1 -celled : ovules 

 numerous, seated at the bottom of the ovary, sessile, erect, 

 anatropal : stigma sessile, capitate, entire : capsule follicular, 

 2-valved, compressed, 1-many seeded: seeds fixed at the 

 bottom of the capsule, erect, ribbed, obliquely beaked at the 

 apex: testa thick, coriaceous: albumen fleshy: embryo straight. 



GENUS EOXBUEGHIA. 

 Vetrandria Monog'yiiia. Sex: St/st: 



Deriv. Named in honour of Dr. James Eoxburgh, the eminent 

 Indian botanist. 



Gen. Chae. Same as the Order. 



