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43. Pribmatomeris. 



44. Gynocthodes. 



31. COELOSPERMDM. 



Heads few-flowered, sab-spicate in 

 terminal panicles; seeds thin, orbicu- 

 lar ... ... ••• ••• '*2« Rennbllia. 



Flowers 'free;— 



Flowers unisexual : — 



Calyx-limb cupular; throat of corolla 

 glabrous, stamens included in its tube ; 

 flowers terminal and axillary ; berry 1- 

 to 2-seeded; seeds sub-globose, peltate 

 Calyx-limb annular, truncate, entire or 

 5-toothed ; throat of corolla woolly and 

 bearing the stamens ; flowers in axillary 

 heada ; drupe globose j seeds com- 

 pressed ... •" ••' 

 Flowers bisexual ; — 



Calyx-limb truncate, entire or obscurely 



lobed; throat of corolla glabrous or 



hairy i flowers in umbels ; fruit a berry 



or drupe with 2 to 4 pyrenes; seeds 



obscurely trigonous ... ••• 



Stamens 4, inserted on the throat of the corolla ; 



style filiform ; stigma capitate or bifid ; ovules 



inserted on the middle of the septum ; fruit a 



crustaceous or coriaceous dehiscent mericarp ; 



seeds oblong or ovoid with ventral groove; 



herbs ... .•• ••♦ ••• 



Ovules basilar, erect : — 



Corolla-lobes inflexed-valvate in bud : — 



Stamens 4 or 5, inserted in the corolla-tube ; 

 style-arms 2, twisted; fruit capsular, com- 

 pressed or globular, containing 2 dorsally com- 

 pressed, — winged or cupped pyrenes often pendu- 

 lous from a columella; seeds compressed, the 

 testa membranous ; foetid climbing shrnba ... 46. Paeberia, 

 Corolla-lobes valvate in bud ; stamens usually 4, 

 but sometimes 5 to 7, inserted near mouth of the 

 corolla ; ovules cuneate, anatropous ; drupe with 2 

 or more pyrenes : — 



Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or in 

 small fascicles ; anthers 4, sab -sessile : — 



Calyx-limb dilated, unequally 4- to 6-lobed ; 

 drupe with 2 pyrenes ; foetid terrestrial 

 shrubs ... ... ... ■•• 47. 



Calyx-limb truncate ; drupe with 2 pyrenes ; 

 epiphytes with tuberous honey-combed stems 48, 

 Flowers solitary, capitate or fascicled, axillary 

 or terminal : — 



Flowers solitary ; calyx with 4 rather long 



45. Speemacoce, 



Saprosma. 



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