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a Panicule thyrsoidez axillares foliis breviores densiflore, 
| divisiones ultimi cymosz, ramulisque trichotomis. 
Flores polygami parvi inconspicui virides, cito fucescent. 
Cal. minutus subpubescens, 4-partit, 
P Petala erecta connivente imbricata concava, marginibus 
f incurvis spathulato-obovata carnosa! centro carinata, in- 
f X serted by the stout fleshy bases into a torus above the level of 
à the insertion of the calyx. 
Stam. totidem interdum 3-5, petalis multo breviora, filam. 
ima basin connatis, inserted by their stout fleshy bases into a 
torus above the level of the insertion of the calyx. Anth. 
peli lateraliter dehiscentes, connectivum in mucronulum 
uct, Rudiment. pistila minut. in basi cupule filamentor. 
connectorum, 
Flos femineus whenever it exists, semper e centro trichoto- 
mus, much less numerous than the male. Calyx pubescens, 
3-partitus. Petala et Stamina ut in mare. 
* Ovarium paululum obliqua, pubescens vel glabrum. Stylus 
robustus subulatus. 
Stigma terminali hinc singularia, capitatum subintegerrime 
as if formed of two reniform lobes. Ovulum l, suberectum 
attached to the ventral suture near the base, foramen inferum, 
tegument duplex, interius inclusum. 
In the young fruit, the drupe is little or none, the seed 
large purplish, oblong reniform with a veined testa? an in- 
ferr curved radicle and rather unequal cotyledons. Is 
‘aere a tegument ? if not, the cotyledons are veined out- 
Side. 
Fruit oblong ovate, little oblique, about the size of a hen's 
€88, not compressed, it is surrounded at the base by the re- 
mains of the perianth. 
| - id yellowish copious with fine fibres of a very 
od 
