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and secondary veins also furfuraceous, or velvety; margin broadly sinuate-dentate; 
main and secondary nerves very prominent beneath, the latter arcuate and anasto- 
mosing at the ends and connected 
through parallel venules.  Sti- 
pules broadly triangular, furfura- 
ceous, 
Staminate inflorescence very 
much reduced, the flowers ap- 
pearing as if almost sessile on the 
trunk or in the axils of leaves. 
Pedicels and calyx densely furfur- 
aceous. 
Staminate flowers rather nu- 
merous, small (about 12 mm. in 
diameter); sepals 2, ovate-con- 
chiform, smooth inside, furfura- 
ceous outside except on the mar- 
gin covered in prefloration, per- 
sistent, 3.4 mm. long. Petals 4 or 
more, 4.5 mm. long, the exterior 
ones broadly ovate, the interior 
narrower, elliptic, both hairy out- 
side and inside in the middle, a 
narrow marginal strip being en- 
tirely glabrous. Stamens numer- 
ous (15 to 19), erect, apparently a é 
free, about 3 mm. long, _fila- 
ments very short, free; anthers Fig. 14.—Leaf parts of Carpotroche glawcescens. a, Base; 
+ ous . b, segment of margin. a,b, Natural size. 
elliptic-linear, 2.5 mm. long, , 
the cells opening first by a terminal pore, which widens later to a longitudinal slit. 
Pistillate flowers large, about 30 mm. in diameter, few and single in the axils of 
leaves. Sepals as in staminate flower but larger in proportion, Petals 8, elliptic- 
Fig. 15.—Flower and fruit of Carpotroche platyptera. a, Flower just before anthesis; 6, interior petal; 
c, exterior petal; d, stamen; e¢, pistil; f, longitudinal, and g, transverse section of fruit. a, Natural 
size; 6-e, scale about 3; f, g, scale }. 
obovate, more or less obtuse. Ovary ovoid, hairy, provided outside with 8 longitu- 
dinal wings. Placentas 4, parietal. Styles 4, free, very short. 
