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2. ALSODEIA, Thouars. 
Treelets or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite entire or 
serrate. Flowers small white or yellow, solitary, racemed or panicu¬ 
late, axillary or terminal. Sepals 5, sub-equal. Petals 5 sub-equal 
sessile. Stamens 5, filaments free or connate, inserted on or inside 
an annular disc, with long or short dorsal membranous appendages; 
anther-cells sometimes with linear processes. Ovary ovoid; style 
straight. Stigma terminal. Ovules few or many. Capsule 3- 
valved. Seeds few. Species about 50, tropics generally. 
(1) A 
( 2 ) A 
i. Prosthesia. A nthers with a subulate appendage from the 
and broad dorsal appendages from the connective. 
Capsule globose bluntly angled, pale, warty; 
leaves large, glabrous .... 
Capsule ovate acute; leaves broad, glabrous 
Capsule unknown. 
Leaves broad lanceolate, acuminate; with 
flowers hairy ...... 
Capsule globose warty. 
Cymes very short; flowers small; leaves about 
3 in. long glabrous ..... 
Capsule ovoid glabrous. 
Cymes very short; flowers small; leaves thin 
and hairy ...... 
Capsule valves 1 in. long, boat-shaped. 
Cymes racemose -5 in. long .... 
Capsule valves -75 in. long 
Cymes panicled, 1 in. long; leaves large 7 in. 
long. 
Capsule ovoid -5 in. long. 
Cymes corymbose peduncled; flowers rather 
^ large . 
Capsule ovoid *75 in. long. 
Raceme of cymes terminal 4 in. long 
tip of each cell 
. Wallichiana 
. Kunstleriana 
( 3 ) A. 
(4) A. 
( 5 ) A. 
( 6 ) A. 
hirtella 
lankawiensis 
dasycaula 
Wrayi 
(7) A. Hookeriana 
(8) A. 
(9) A. 
Maingayi 
einerea 
ii. Pentaloba. Anthers with broad appendages from 
Fruit not spiny hairy. 
Cymes very small ; leaves 3 in. long ovate 
Cymes small not peduncled. 
Leaves lanceolate ; capsule silky small 
Leaves oblong; capsule glabrous 1-25 in. long 
Leaves lanceolate, long, acuminate large; 
capsule *5 in. . 
Cymes corymbose peduncled many-flowered. 
Flowers -08 in. long; numerous crowded 
Flowers -15 in. long; leaves 4 in. long . 
Flowers -3 in. long; leaves 10 in. long . 
Capsules covered with soft bristles. Cymes small. 
Leaves oblong lanceolate; capsule sparsely 
bristly . . . . . 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate toothed; capsule 
densely bristly; anthers with a subulate 
process from each cell, no appendage to 
connective . . . . . 
Leaves, oblong, obovate, toothed ; capsule 2 in. 
across, densely felted .... 
connectives only. 
(10) A. minutiflora 
(n) A. lanceolata 
(12) A. paehycarpa 
(13) A. Scortechinii 
(14) A. condensa 
(15) A. floribunda 
(16) A. grandiflora 
(17) A. capillata 
(18) A. comosa 
(19) A. echinocarpa 
