Hyeronima 



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271 



fringed. Oranj ovoid-cylindrical, glabrous. Fruit globular, api-i-ul. 

 with persistent styles, 2 mm. 1., nearly the same in diam. 



B 



D 



A, Portion of leaf showing on the under 

 side a nerve, hairs, and scale-hairs 



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l-l, Male flower cut lengthwise x 11. 

 < ', Female flower X 11. 



. Hyeronima clusioides Muell. Aru. 



D, Ditto cut lengthwise x 11. 



E, Fruit cut lengthwise x 11. 



1', Seed of LI. alchorneoides cut length- 

 wise, enlarged. After Tulusiif in Fl. 

 Bras. 



5. SAVIA Willd. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, entire, stitily mem- 

 branous or leathery. Flowers dioecious, with rudimentary 

 petals, axillary, male densely clustered, subsessile, female solitarv 

 (.1- few, with short or long pedicels. Male flowers : Sepals 5 3 

 subequal, imbricate. Petals small, sublinear. Disk rin^-like. 

 outside the stamens in the male flower. Stamens .\ opposite the 

 sepals; filaments free ; anther-cells close together, opening longi- 

 tudinally. Ovary rudimentary, with 3 short stvl< I'Vmalr 

 flowers: Sepals and petals like those of the male. l>isk riir_ 

 like. Ovary 3-celled ; styles separate, spreading alto\e, \\ith 

 two awl-shaped acuminate branches; ovules '1 in each cell. 

 sule bi-eakiu^ up into 2-valved cocci. Seeds ovoid or .'i- 

 without a -a r uncle. 



Species about 10, West Indi 



Leaves elliptical to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 1. N. 



Leaves obovate-elliptical, with rounded apex -2. .s. <> ijfJi roxy loi- 



