128 NATUIiAL nTSTORT OF PLANTS. 



tile, 2-colled dehiscing longitudinally ; cells parallel on a linear more 

 or less apiculate connective. Carpels cc united into a tj - celled 

 ovary ; cells sometimes scarcely reaching the axis in the centre, free 

 in that part ; styles as many, diverging stellately at the base, or 

 sometimes thickening on the nearly distinct apices of the carpels. 

 Ovules GO , subtransverse inserted in 2 rows in the internal angle of 

 each cell. Fruit baccate go - celled ; seeds go , imbedded in pulp ; 

 albumen copious ; embryo straight, central, with an elongated cylin- 

 drical radicle ; cotyledons short. — Shrubs often twining ; leaves 

 penniveined ; flowers axillary, solitary or few, or often numerous in 

 corymbose cymes [tropical and subtropical A-^ia). See p. 110. 



