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less adherent to it, 3- rarely 2-4-celled ; style short, simple, or 2^-4 cleft ; 

 ovules 1 in each cell, erect, anatropous, raphe dorsal. Fruit free or girt at 

 the base or middle by the adhering calyx-tube, 3- more rarely i"f '^^ ? ' 

 capsular or a dry or fleshy drupe, sometimes winged. /S'e^^ with nesn^ 

 ; albumen, rarelv exalbuminous j embryo large, erect.— Disteib. Abundant 

 ''"in the tropical and temperate regions of the world; genera 38, species 

 above 400. . , :. " yn^L...^ 



ViTMANsiA AYRicANA, W. & A. Prodr. 166 ; W. Ic. 490, is a S. African planl, not 

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. Tribe I. Ventilagineea. Scandent unarmed shrubs. Zea^^yilteniate. 

 •i)isi filling the calyx-tube. O^ary superior or half superior. -^rM^^ ary, 

 1-celled, 1-seeded, girt at the base or middle by the calyx-tube.*^ /5^«^ 

 exalbuminous. ■ ■■' -^ ' ' >^'^^'^: 



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Fruit indehiscent, prolonged above into a linear-oblong wing' . . . !• Veittila 

 Fruit a 2-valved broadly oblong capsule . . -. . ^ ; ; ' . . . • 2. SmytHea. 



7 Tbibe' it. Zlzyphe». Shrubs or trees. Disk filKng the calyx-tube. 

 Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe with a 1-3-celled stone. , . \ .i; >r. ^ :^' ' 



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Leaves prominently 3-nerved- J •/. . / • • *' ^J^^^^^a 



Leaves penmnerved ; ■;'':'*■ ..'....... * • i- . ^ ''4. I^P^^^, . * 



' Tribe "ill. Rhanmeee. Shrubs or treea. Disk lining or filing the 

 jcalyx-tube. Ovary superior or half-superior. Fruit dry or fleshy, oi a 

 (rarely 2 or 4) pyrenes or cocci. ; . ; 'r .: .. ; .,f , .jrft, ' • 



^ ^.. * -t^^k thirty hmng the calyx-tuhe. -. \ ■, /. : .:r^ .1 r(tt*ii^a#^ 



Trees or shrubs/ Leaves alternate. -:Cymes axillaty. Fruit 5nde-^ j>^^^^ : 

 hiscent ; \ . .' " - ^ . ...j&nShamhus. 



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^'"^Diskjlesky^fUmgaeccayx-luber ' / V .^^ -'^^--'^f'UC : 



Leaves' alternate, unequal. ^ Peduncles swollen, fleshy. An unarinea - ' '""'^n 

 tree . . . ' •'- - ' 6. Hovenia. 



Leaves opposite or subopposite. Flowers subumbellate. An unarmed ; "^ « ^ 

 - or prickly shrub . ............ . . . : v- .^ 7. ScuxiA. 



-Leaves opposite or subopposite. Flowers sessile in terminal panicles. :' ' "^'"-- _,. 



Unarmed or spinous shrubs »• n^^^mA 



Leaves alternate. Peduncles slender, not fleshy. An unarmed shrub 9- Colubri 



Tribe IV. Goaanleee. Fruit inferior, crowned witli the persist^* 



calyx ■' ^' ■"",:- -:,. 



Fruit globose, not winged. Flowers fascicled, forming paniculate • ^ -<;_^"|jj' 



racemes , , ^ ......•• ^^* ^ .* 



Fruit 3-winged. Flowers fascicled, Vorlning paniculate racemes . » • 11- S'^^f'^S* 

 Fruit ovate, terete. Flowers subuiibellate . . . .^ . • • • • 1% S^^'"'^ 



1. VBNTII.AGO, Gsertn.- -:"■*■ 'I^-f-l^^^^ 



Scandent shrubs. ; Zeai;es atternate, subbifarious. <: -^^<we^« -^"Ihp' axils 



,^ posed m axillary and terminal (usually leafless) panicles, rarely ^J'f^'^yi. 



f ,pf the leaves. Calyx 5-fid, with spreading internally keeled ^oj^*^; ,' „te to 



4 .tube obconicaL Peta/s 6, obtriangnlar dr cucuUatS: '^'"^^ ^I^T^nk in 



-the ^se of the petals. J)isk 5-lobed with a free margin. ^f2hdo\xi^<^> 



g: the. disk, 2-ceUed : style very short FruU samaroid, the nut suDgw*^ 



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