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Small trees or shrubs. I iple, alternate, with stipules. Flowers ■! 



Mustered axillary catkins, ,or -' . by abortion. Calyx ins 



red over by a dilated bract Corolla wanting DU wmi hat fli 

 rounding the Btamens, or in front of them, Bonn turn 



ible. Siani. n 1, hypogynous, Btandingon on 

 ovary, with a thick 2-lobed connective, at the ap 

 whose I" 1 "- is placed a single cell of an anther, i 

 transversely. Ovary superior, in a fleshy I 



cell I, with several anatropal ovules attached t 

 placentas; Btigmas 2 or 3, sessile or on a Btyle. I 

 capsular, I -celled, splitting into 2 or 3 valves, each of which 

 bears a placenta in its middle. Seed usually, I 

 one to each ralve, suspended, with a fleshy aril ; integun 

 crustaceous; albumen fleshy ; embryo inverted, with pis 

 cotyledons and a superior straight cylindrical radii 



Von Marti 

 founder of this Oi 

 which he divides from 

 Nettleworts, sp 

 thus : •• ! niliar 



character < sists in the 



ace of a distim 

 rianth, while the amen- 

 taceous intl 



an indication "i an affi- 

 nity with apetalous Orders of a lower grade." Th< - 

 Botanist indicates its relation toChloranths in the structure 

 of tile filament, and to Samyds in that ol the fruit, •• the 

 monadelphous stamens of both which may I. 

 Bidered a higher kind of evolution of the fleshy d 

 bottom of the flower of Lacistema." In habit th - 

 are aaid to be something like Peppers, but more 

 To me, however, they look much more HI I 

 an amentaceous inflorescence, and they might ■ 



i for them, when nol in flower. They differ, how 

 from Samyds in their leaves not I» ing dotted, in thi 

 not perfect tubular and half-coloured, c 

 unilateral stamens. No doubt they an 

 . from the more p rfect to the diclinous 



ently indicated bj their polygamous flowers. 



Nanv. s ol low piaci - in w la i n equinoctial America. 



Ineir properties are unknown. 



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anthers, I 

 Didumandra, Will. I. 



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Numbers. Gex 



Position. 



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-Sam\ 



XVk errulntmu. — M, trims. 



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