Clixtocarpus 



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Leaves 2 '5-4 cm. 1., roundish-ovate to roundish-elliptical, rounded or very 

 obtuse at both ends, glabrous, shining ; petioles 2-4 mm. 1. Flowers 

 clustered in the axils of the upper reduced leaves forming a terminal 

 raceme leafy at the base. Pedicels: male 2 mm. 1., female to 6 mm. 1. 

 Male Jluu; >-.>: Calyx about 2 mm. 1., irregularly 4-5 parted, densely 

 puberulous. Disk, lobes about as many as the stamens, conical, titamoislj 7. 

 the outer included, the inner higher, rising beyond the calyx ; filaments 



Fig. 106. Chsetocarpus globosus Fa we. & Kendk. 



A, Upper part of branch with female in- 



florescence X s- 



B, Male flower cut lengthwise X 5. 



C, Stamens, showing back and front 



X 10. 



D, Female flower with a sepal removed t<> 



show a 2-parted lobe of the disk x 5. 



E, Ovary cut lengthwise, showing ovuk-- 



and obturator x J. 



F, Male flower cut lengthwise with sepal- 



removed x 10. 



(of various lengths) and column villose. Anther-cells attached separately 

 to the connective which is produced slightly beyond them, oblong-curved, 

 each with a smaller cell on the concave surface. Central column slender, 

 tapering, nearly as long as the calyx. Female floirers : Cali/x 2-2-3 mm. 1.. 

 irregularly 4-cleft, densely puberulous. Disk, lobes 4, 2-parted, oppo 

 the sepals. Capsule 11-12 mm. 1. Seeds remaining for long attached to 

 the 3-winged columellu. 



22. OMPHALEA L. 



Trees, or twining or climbing shrubs Leaves alternate, \\itli 

 two glands at the apex of the petiole, entire, pinnate nerved. 

 often 3 5-nerved at the base, with stipules small, soon fallinir. 

 Flowers monoecious, without petals, in small cymes \\hicli are 

 altogether male or with the central llower female, disposed 

 along the brain-hes of a terminal panicle. I'.rads subtending. 

 the cymes on the axis of the panicle somewhat leaf like. Di.-k 



