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long-stalked clusters of flowers concealed by the two leaves of the large 
leafy involucre. Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. Species 50. 
1. D. tamifolia, Lam. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 1248. A 
climbing shrub, with slender finely pilose branches and petioles. Leaves 
long-petioled, deeply cordate, membranous, as broad as long (4-6 in.), 
with three deep palmate denticulate acute lobes ; stipules reflexed, 
lanceolate, persistent. Peduncles as long as the petiole, with a whorl 
of reflexed lanceolate persistent bracts below the involucre; bracts of 
the involucre lf-2 inches broad and long, pale rose, acute, entire or 
3-lobed, conspicuously veined. Pemale flowers in threes with the 
deeply laciniated perianth-segments persistent and accrescent in fruit. 
Style-column nearly \ inch long, slightly dilated at the tip. Male 
flowers numerous, the glabrous globose buds J inch thick, splitting 
open and disclosing a dense head of yellow oblong anthers on a column 
as long as the lanceolate perianth-segments. D. trilobata, Sieber , Herb. 
Maur. No. 256. 
Mauritius, Sieber ! Also Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. 
10. CLAOXYLON, A. Juss. 
Flowers dioicous. Perianth calycine, the male usually 3-partite, 
with valvate segments. Stamens numerous, inserted on a thick 
disk, the glands of which alternate with the perianth-segments ; 
filaments free ; anthers of two cells which adhere to one 
another at the base only. Female perianth 2-3-partite ; ovary 
usually 3-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; styles 3 short, simple, 
spreading. Fruit a deeply-lobed small capsule. Seeds enveloped in a 
thin arillus. — Shrubs or trees, with alternate petioled penninerved 
leaves, the flowers of both sexes in racemes, with minute bracts, usually 
fascicled in clusters. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Spe- 
cies 40. 
Leaves coriaceous, glabrous. 
Racemes short, dense 1. C. grand ifolium. 
Racemes short, lax 2. C. parviflorum. 
Racemes long and slender. 
Leaves oblong or oblanceolate-oblong ; male flowers 
1-3-nate 3. C. linostachys. 
Leaves obovate ; male flowers solitary 4. C. Neraudianum. 
Leaves membranous, pilose beneath * C. indicum. 
1. C. grandifolium, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 785. A 
shrub, with stout terete glabrous branchlets. Leaves oblanceolate- 
oblong, glabrous, subcoriaceous, 6-9 in. long, deltoid at the apex, 
cuneate at the base, distantly denticulate ; petiole J-l in. long. 
Flowers in dense nearly sessile axillary racemes 1-lf in. long; bracts 
minute, deltoid, densely imbricated before the flowers open ; pedicels 
very short. Stamens about 40. Ovary ovoid, tomentose. Capsule 
