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mentary ovary 0. Female : Calyx in flower with segments usually 

 smaller than in the male, in fruit somewhat accrescent. Petah 

 when present rarely as large as in males ; often much reduced or 

 obsolete and replaced by tufts of hairs, occasionally altogether 

 absent. Disc-glands as in males or at times connate in a ring. 

 Ovary usually 3-celled, occasionally 2- or 4-celled, ovules solitary in 

 each cell; styles usually recurved, 1-3 times 2-tid or -partite, rarely 

 multifid. Ca])sule normally 3-dymou5, breaking up into 2-valved 

 cocci ; rarely subindehiscent. Seeds smooth, strophiolate ; strophi- 

 ole small ; testa crustaceous or woody ; albumen copious, fleshy ; 

 cotyledons broad, flat. 



Trees, shrubs or rarely herbs, of varied habit, usually beset with stellate hairs or 

 orbicular scales ; leaves usually alternate, rarely opposite or verticillate, entire or 

 toothed, rarely lobed, penniaerved thi'oughout, or palmately 3-qo -nerved from the 

 base, usually with 2 prominent glands at apex of petiole ; flowers in spikes or 

 racemes ; in andrt>gynous inflorescences usually with many males above and a few 

 basal females, occasionally with both sexes mixed. Bracts small. 



DiSTRiB. Species about 600, throughout the tropics of both hemispheres, with 

 a few species extending or confined to subtropical regions. 



Young shoots and leaves beneath stellate-pubescent but 



,, not lepidote ; leaves long-petioledj 5-ner\'ed at base, 



the midrib thereafter up to 4-jugately penninerved ; 



female petals minute or obsolete : 



Leaves pubescent above, basal glands obsolete ; female 



calyx not accrescent : a shrub ... ... ... (1) rivnlaris. 



Leaves glabrous, or nearly so, above, basal glands large ; 

 female calyx not accrescent ; trees ; 

 Basal glands at point of junction of petiole and 



blade; capsule J in. across (2) sylvaticus. 



Basal glands -^-q-^i ^^* l^^Iow point of junction of 



petiole and blade ; capsule f-1 in. across „. (3) Gubouga. 



Young shoots and leaves beneath lepidote ; leaves 6-14- 



jugately penuiuerved throughout ; female calyx not 



accrescent : 

 . Petals in female flower wanting ; leaves very shortl}' 



petioled, stellate-pubescent above • ... (4) Menyharti 



Petals in female flowers well developed; leaves dis- 

 tinctly petioled, fragrant : 

 Leaves persistently etedate-pubenilous above ; basal 

 glands at apex of petiole distinct, but hidden 

 by base of leaf (5) subgratissimus. 



Leaves quite glabrous above : 



Lateral nerves of leaves indistinct or impressed 



above : 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, not over 2 in. 



long ; lateral nerves faintly impressed above, 



not visible beneath ; basal glands if present 



on upper side of petiole below base of leaf (6) gratissimus. 



Leaves elliptic, obtuse or subacute, rarely 

 under 2^ in. long later il nerves somewhat 

 impres:ied above and raised beneath ; basal 

 glands at apex of petiole distinct, often 

 stipitate, hidden by S.ase of l^af (7 J zambesicus. 



Lateral nerves of leaves distinctly raised above, 



not visible beneath ; basal glands obsolete ... (S) pseudopulchcllus. 



