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small ; floral bracts three, very short, from ovate- to 

 linear-lanceolar, connate at the base, unilateral ; anthers 

 opening by two terminal pores. L. Baueri. 



Stalklets of flowers very short. 



A shrub, finally quite tall ; leaves very firm, from ovate- to 

 lanceolar- or narrow-elliptical, entire or somewhat sinuous 

 at the margin, or at or near the base slightly lobed, 

 almost or quite flat, underneath closely beset with starry 

 hairlets ; flowers comparatively large ; floral bracts three, 

 from lanceolar- to narrow-linear, connate at the base, 

 unilateral ; anthers opening by two terminal pores. 



L. ferruginenm. 



COIKXKERCONXA. 



758. Staminodia singly placed between the stamens. 



A shrub, from rather dwarf to tall ; leaves mostly from 

 cordate- to ovate-lanceolar, lobeless or few-lobed, crenu- 

 lated or irregularly denticulated, beneath densely beset 

 with hairlets ; flowers in cymes ; calyx whitish ; staminodia 

 linear-lanceolar, scarcely exserted ; fruit armed with 

 spinescent excrescences, opening between the dissepiments; 

 seeds appendiculated. C. clasyphylla. 



Staminodia ternately placed between the stamens. 



A tall shrub or finally a small tree ; leaves large, from 

 cordate- to ovate-lanceolar, often acuminate, beneath 

 paler and beset with starry hairlets, serrate- or repand- 

 crenate, lobeless or short-lobed ; cymes paniculate ; 

 staminodia glabrous, as long as or longer than the calyx, 

 spatular-cuneate, with linear base ; fruit beset with hispid 

 bristlets, opening between the dissepiments ; seeds 

 appendiculated. C. Fraseri. 



BRACHYCHITON. 



759. Calyx outside scantily beset with hairlets. 



An evergreen tree, sometimes tall ; leaves simple, firm, 

 glabrous, shining, those of the adult plant verging into 

 a mainly ovate or rhomboid form, terminated by a long 

 and narrow acumen, and often producing a pointed lobe 

 on each side ; flowers in rather short panicles ; calyx 

 yellowish- and red-speckled ; ovularies rudimentary in 

 the principal staminate flowers ; stamens less developed 

 in the principal pistillate flowers ; fruitlets five, very large, 

 hard ; seeds mutually cohering, their brittle outer 

 integument partly persistent, outside invested with 

 starry hairlets. Figure 21. B. populneus. 



