620 cm. JUGLANDACEiE [Juglans: 



dissepiment separating the 2 cotyledons, the other dividing them into 2 lobes. 

 The cotyledons remain nndergronnd when germinating. 



Indigenous trans-Indus in the K.uram valley, the North-West Himalaya, Sikkim 

 and the hills of Upper Burma. Cultivated in the North-West Himalaya from 8,500 

 to nearly 11,000 ft., also in the inner and valleys. Fl. Feb.- April. Mou.ntains of Greece 

 and Western Asia. Cultivated in China. 



2. ENGELHARDTIA, Leschen. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 595. 

 Species G, India, Malaya, China. 



1. E. spicata, Blame, including E, Roxhurgluana^ Lindley, E. acerifiora^ 

 Blume, E. Colebrooklana^ Lindl. in Wall. PL As. Rar. t. 208 and E. rillosa^ 

 Kurz. Vern. Moiva, Gadmmoa^ Hind. ; Petsuf, Thitsawlnrci^ Upper, Taxing- 

 fmnasdkj Lower Burma ; Pyinsit^ Mergui. 



A large, in places a small, deciduous monoBcions tree, often gregarious, wood 

 pink-grey with a satiny lustre on the radial section. Branchlets, petioles and 

 underside of 1. from glabrous or slightly hairy to densely tomentose, usually 

 with numerous shining orbicular glands. L. as a rule paripinnate (by abor- 

 tion of the terminal leaflet), leaflets 6-14, sessile or shortly petiolulate, nearly 

 opposite, 3-10 in. long, usually entire, in young plants serrate. ^ fl. in 

 slender often panicled catkins, 3-7 in. long, from the previous year's wood. 

 Perianth of 4-5 variously shaped scaler, adnate to a generally 3-lobed bract- 

 Anthers 4-12, hispid, macronate, nearly sessile, inserted on the upper surface 

 of the bract. 5 fl- ^'^ bracteate pendulous spikes 6-12 in. long, often in the 

 same panicle with the $ catkins. Bracts cup-shaped, with 3 large unequal 

 lobes enclosing the base of the glabrous or hairy calyx, which is adnate to the 

 ovary, limb 4-dentate, petals 0, style divided into 2-4 densely papillose 

 branches, Fr. a small globose, coriaceous, 1-seeded nut, adnate to the greatly 

 enlarged scarious reticulate 3-lobed bract, the base of which is densely 

 tomentose with long hairs, lobes spathulate-oblong, obtuse, with a conspicuous 

 midrib, the middle one 1-1^ in. long, the 2 lateral half that length. Cotyledons 

 foliaceous, much folded and twisted. 



SubhiiTialaj'-an tract and outer hills, ascending to 6,000 ft., fiona the Chenab east- 

 wards. Assam. Khasi hills. Manipur. Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower, 

 ascending to 6,000 ft. Leaf! ess onlv a very short time, fl. at different times from Sept. 

 to May. Coppices well and reproduces readily from self-sown send — Malay Penms. and 

 Archip. China. Three different species are doubtfullv recos,nized ni Fl. Biit. Ind. v. 595. 

 {a) E. "-picafff, Blume. Nepal to Burma. Java. Cochinchina. Leaflets petiolulate, 

 ]jubescent beneath, at length glabx^ous (h) E. aceriflora, Blmxic ; Prain Bengal Plants 984. 

 Prom Sikkim to Burma. Yunnan. Ind. Archip. Leaflets sessile {c)E. Colehrookiana^ 

 Lindley; Gamble Ind. Timbers Ed, ii. 664. Prom the Punjab to Burma.— China. 

 Leaflets pptiolulate, tomentose beneath, branchlets and x-*Gtioles tomentose. 2. E. 

 polystachya, Radlk. in Sitzungsberichte d. 3u')nigl. Baver. Alvademie d. Wissensch. 

 Mathem. Physikal Olasse, 1878, B85. East Bengal (Griffith No. 1020/3) imperfectly 

 known, glabrous but clothed witlx golden peltate glands. 



Ordkr civ. Myricacese — Mi/rlea Xarji, Thunb. *, Collett Simla PI. 470, Pig. 151. — 

 Syn. M, sr/pida, Wall ; Jf. interjrifoHa^ Eoxb. ; Wight Tc t. 704, 765. Outer Himalaya 

 from the Bavi eastwards, 3-6,000 ft., not kno^^ n from Sikkim. Kha&i hills. ]Martaban 

 and Tenasserim. — Malay Penins. and Archip. China. Japan. Yern. KcdphaJy 

 Hind. A moderate-sized evergreen aromatic monoecious or dioecious tree, 

 branchlets pubescent. L. alternate, coriaceous, lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, on 

 young plants membranous, with large and sharp aerratures, undei^ide pale or rust- 

 coloureil, with resinous dots, stipules 0. $ fl. in cylindric catkins, usually racemose 

 on a common peduncle, oecasionallv with ? fl. at the top, stamens 3-6 with several 

 small scales in the axils of broad bracts, filaments short. 9 fl. in solitary slender 

 axillary catkins; 1-3 one-celled ovaries, surrounded by glandular bracteoles, in the 

 axil of each bi^act, styles 2, stout, recurved, ovule 1 erect, orthotropous. Pr. edible, red 

 or brown, sessile, few on axillary peduncles, globose or ovoid, tubercled, |-| in. long, 

 endoearp long, pericarp fleshy Albu.men 0, cotyledons plano-convex, radicle superior. 

 Order OY. Casuariuaceae. — Casuarma equhetifolia^ Porst. Yern. Ohowhu, Tel. i 

 Tin?/ft, Flnle-Kahiv^, Burm, Sand hills on the coast of Chittagong, Tenasserim and 



