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2. Styles 3 — 5, free or united below. Sepals 5. Embryo with distinct, 



not very thick cotyledons. [Subfamily HYPERICOIDEAE.] . . 3 



Style I, undivided or cleft at the top, or I sessile stigma. Shrubs or trees. 7 



3. Fruit a berry or a drupe. Carpels 5. Seeds not winged ; cotyledons 



longer than the radicle. Petals usually woolly within. Stamens in 

 5 bundles. Shrubs or trees. [Tribe VISMIEAE.] 4 



Fruit a capsule, rarely a berry, but then carpels 3. Petals glabrous with- 

 in 6 



.]. Fruit a drupe. Ovules 2 — 3 in each ovary-cell. Stamens in bundles of 

 3 — 5- — Species i {H. panicnlata Lodd.). Tropics. Yields timber, 

 dyes, edible fruit from which a drink is prepared, and medicaments. 

 {Harungana Lam.) Haronga Thouars 



Fruit a berry. Stamens in bundles of 4 — 20 5 



5. Ovules I — 2 in each ovary-cell. Embryo with usually twisted cotvledons. 



Flowers in terminal, umbel-like cymes. — Species 35. Tropics. Some 



are used medicinally Psorospermum Spach 



Ovules 3 or more in each ovary-cell. Embryo with semiterete cot3'ledons. 

 Flowers in panicles. — Specie? 6. Central Africa. {Caopia Adans.) 



Vismia Veil. 



6. Fruit dehiscing septicidally and locuHcidally. Seeds with a long wing. 



Embryo with a very short radicle and longer cotyledons. Ovary 3- 

 celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Stamens in 3 bundles. Petals with 

 a basal appendage. Shrubs. — Species 2. Madagascar. [Tribe 



CRATOXYLEAE.] Eliaea Camb. 



Fruit dehiscing septicidally, rarely indehiscent. Seeds witiiout a distinct 

 wing, but sometimes keeled. Embryo with the cotyledons usually 

 shorter than the radicle. — Species 35. Some of them yield wood and 

 medicaments, or serve as ornamental plants. (Including Androsacuiitni 

 All. and Triadeiiia Spach). [Tribe KYPERICEAE.] Hypericum T. 



7. (2.) Style very short or wanting. Fruit a berry. Seeds usually with an 



aril. Embryo undivided. [Subfamilv CLUSIOIDEAE, tribe GAR- 



CINIEAE.J " 8 



Style distinctly developed. Seeds usually without an aril 11 



8. Ovary incompletely 5-celled with numerous parietal ovules in each cell. 



Flowers unisexual. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens in 5 bundles. 

 Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Seeds with an aril. — Species 4. 

 Central Africa. The seeds yield a fat. (Including Stearodendron 



Engl.) (Plate Q9.) Allanblackia Oliv. 



Ovary completely 2 — 12-celk-d with i — 2 axile ovules in each cell. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous 9 



9. Ovary with 2 — 3 two-ovuled cells, sometimes each cell subsequently 



divided into two incomplete, one-ovuled compartments. Sepals 2. 

 Petals 4. Filaments united at the base. Seeds without an aril. Flowers 

 in clusters, rarely solitary. — Species 12. Madagascar and West 



