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Climbing or erect slirubs or erect trees, glabrous or with simple hairs. 

 Leaves alternate, exstipnlate, simple or compound* Flotvers small or minute, 

 liermaphrodite or polygamous, iisiially panicled. Cb/y^r 4-5-partite, imbricate. 

 Pe^«fo 4-5, equal or unequal, opposite or alternate with the sepals, imbricate. 

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 a or subulate J anthers didymous, cells distant bursting 

 transversely or by a deciduous cap, Orary 2-3-celled, compressed or 2-3-lobed ; 

 styles 2-3, free or connate or 0, stigmas pimctiform; ovules. 1-2 in each cell. 

 Ripe carpels 1-2, dry or fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds compressed or globose, 

 basilar, hilum broad, testa membranous or coriaceous, albmnen 0; embryo 

 various, cotyledons often contorted, radicle deflexed. — Distrib. A small chiefly 

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 tbeir bases. Leaves quite entire. Floivers axillary, solitary, cj-mose or 

 panicled, usually hermaphi'odite, 2-bracteate; bracts, calyx, corolla, stamens 

 and carpels all opposite. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4-6, with transparent' 

 lines, green, piu^plish or yellow. Disk annular, 4-6-lobed. Stamens 4-5, 

 inserted at the base of the disk ; anthers extrorse or inti'orse. Carpels 2, rarely 

 3, cohering slightly ;"^tyles 2, erect, terminal, cohering slightly; ovxiles 2 in 

 each carpel, collateral or superposed, horizontal. ' Hipe-carpels 1 or 2, gibbous, 

 with a subbasal style, dry or drupaceous. Seed reniform, testa coriaceoiis, 

 dotted; embryo curved, cotyledons straight or incurved flat rugose or undulate, 

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