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definite, usually springing from a prolonged or dilated torus, free or 

 sometimes 5-adelphous, filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled. Ocary free, 

 2-10-celled ; styles columnar, or divided into as many divisions as there 

 are cells to the ovai'y, stigmas usually distinct, rarely confluent or sessile. 

 Ovules attached to the inner angle of the cells of the ovary ; if few in 

 number, often pendulous from the apex or ascending from the base ; if 

 more numerous, disposed in 2 or more ranks, anatropous ; raphe ventral 

 or lateral. Fruit fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, 2-10 or by 

 abortion 1-celled (cells sometimes divided by false partitions) ; carpels 

 separable or always united. Seeds 1 or many, ascending, pendulous or 

 transverse, with no arillus ; testa leathery or crustaceous or pilose ; al- 

 bumen fleshy, abundant or scanty, rarely wanting ; embryo straight or 

 slightly curved, cotyledons leafy, rarely fleshy, radicle next the hilum. — 

 Distrib. about 370 species; most abundant in the tropics of either 

 hemisphere. 



Series A. Holopefahe. Petals glabrous or I'arely downy, coloured, thin, 

 unguiculate, entire or nearly so, imbricate or twisted iu the bud. 

 Anthers globose or oblong, opening by slits. 

 Tribe I. Broivnloioiece. Sepals combined below 

 into a cup. Anthers globose, cells ulti- 

 mately confluent at the top. 

 * SfaminoJes 5. 

 Carpels distinct, 2-valved 

 Carpels combined, indehiscent, winged 

 ** Staminodes 0. 

 Stamens on a raised torus ... ... 



Stamens on a contracted torus ... 

 Tribe II. Ch-eiviece. Sepals distinct. Petals 

 glandular at the base. Stamens springing 

 from the apex of a raised toi'us. 

 Fruit drupaceous, not prickly ... 

 Fruit dry indehiscent or 3-5 coccous, prickly 

 Tribe III. Tiliece. Sepals distinct : petals not 

 glandular. Stamens springing from a 

 contracted torus. 

 Herbs or undershrubs with 3 or 5-celled 



capsules: seeds without liairs 

 Trees with 2-celltd capsules ; seeds with 

 marginal hairs 



Series B. Heteropetaloi. Petals usually incised, rarely entire or absent, 

 induplicate or imbricate not twisted : anthers linear, opening 

 by a terminal pore often with an apical awn or tuft of hairs. 

 Stfimeus on a raised torus ; fruit drupaceous 9, Elceocorpns. 



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1. 



2. 



Bro^Dnlowia. 

 Pentace. 



3. Schoutenia. 



4. Berry a. 



5. 

 6. 



Gh'eivia. 

 Triumfetta. 



7. Goi'chorus. 



8. Trichospermum. 



