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21. DIMORPHOCALYX, Thw. 



Trees. Leaves entire, coriaceous, alternate. Flowers in axillary 

 or terminal few-flowered spikes or the female subsolifcary, dioecious. 

 Male fl. Calyx cupular, 5-tootJied or lobed. Petals 5. Disk of 5 

 glands, alternating with the petals. Stamens 10-20, on a short torus ; 

 ii laments stout, free or the inner connate ; anthers dorsifixed. 

 Pistillode 0. Fem. fl. Sepals 5, imbricate, greatly enlarged in fruit. 

 Petals 5. Ovary 3-celled ; styles erects 2-fid ; ovules 1 in each cell. 

 Fruit a 3-cellei capsule^ cells 2-valved. Seeds ovoid, testa crustaceous, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad. 



D. Lawianus, Hook. f. Fl. Br. I. 5, 404. Trigonostemon Lawianus, 

 Muell. Arg. ; Bedd, FL Sylv, t. 273. 



Travancore; on the Anamally Hills, in the evergreen forests of the 

 Konkan and North Kanara, common on the southern ghats ; between 

 Nilkund and Gairsoppah, Fl. Feb. -Oct. Fr. Nov.-Jany. A small or 

 moderate-sized tree. Wood unknown. Calyx segments of female flower 

 unequal. Sir J. Hooker separates this species from D. glabellus, Thw. 

 (found in Ceylon) with hesitation — vide Fl. Br. I. v. 404. 



22. AGROSTISTACHYS, Dalzell, 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves long, entire or serrate, subsessile. 

 Flowers dioecious, in bracteate spikes or racemes, males few within 

 each bract ; females solitary, long pedieelled. Male fl. Calyx globose 

 of 2-5, valvate lobes. Petals 8, shorter. Disk-glands large, alternat- 

 ing with the petals. Stamens 8-13 on a convex receptacle ; filaments 

 free ; anthers versatile, cells pendulous from the thickened connective. 

 Pistillode 2-3-fid or 0. Female fl. Calyx 5-6-fid. Petals longer, 

 caducous. Ovary 3-celled ; styles thick, short, spreading, 2-fid, ovules 

 1 in each cell. Fruit a 3-celled capsule or subfleshy. Seeds globose, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



Bracts of male 1-3-flowered, densely imbricate ... 1. ^, indica. 

 Flowers many under eacli bract, bracts remote 2.-4. longifolia. 



1. A. indica, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 232 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 406 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 205.. 



Western Peninsula on the ghats from the Konkan soathwards. Ceylon 

 in the Central Province, 1 — 2000 ft. alt. Throughout the Konkan, North 

 Kanara and Belgaum (Amboli) in evergreen forests, on the banks of 

 streams. Fl. Feb. Fr. C. & H. S. A stout shrub with very tough 

 branches and smooth bark. The male flowers are white ; in short, 

 flattened, axillary, fascicled, bracteate spikes, often deflexed like those 

 of Alsoidecu 



2. A. longifolia, Benth. in Gen. PI. III. 303 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 407 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 205. 



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