158 NATURAL mSTORY OF PLANT!?. 



containing from one to four seeds, which possess copious fleshy 

 albumen surrounding a small embryo placed near the apex. 



The Euptdem are trees differing widely in aspect from most Mag- 

 noUaccce. Their scaly buds develope alternate petiolate, exstipulate, 

 caducous leaves, with a rounded or heart-shaped penniveined blade 

 fringed with glandular teeth when young. The flowers appear 

 before the leaves, and are collected into very short catkins also in 

 scaly buds. 



Next to Eifpfelea, we may provisionally station Trochodendron^ 

 which might also constitute a particular section, because its receptacle 

 assumes a markedly concave form, and the carpels, instead of being 

 quite free, are partly imbedded by the base in the sort of axial cup 

 thus formed. Hence the stamens inserted on the rim of this cup 

 are slightly perigynous. They are, moreover, indefinite as in Eup- 

 telea, and each consists of a free filament and a two-celled adnate 

 basifixed anther dehiscing by two longitudinal, nearly marginal, 

 clefts.- Around the androceum we see no true perianth, but only 

 some slight projections of the receptacle.^ The carpels are of an 

 indefinite but small number.'' The way their ovaries are inserted on 

 the receptacle makes them appear united for a large extent on the 

 outside. But on the inside they are far more deeply separated, and 

 are quite free in the stylar portion, which has the shape of a horn 

 recurved at the tip, and traversed down the inner edge by a longitu- 

 dinal groove, whose lips are covered above with stigmatic papilhe. 

 Each ovary contains on its inner angle a two-lipped placenta bearing 

 a variable number* of horizontal anatropous ovules. The fruit con- 

 sists of several follicles united by the common receptacle below and 

 externally, free above, and deliiscing by an internal vertical cleft. 

 The numerous seeds contain fleshy albumen and an embryo of small 

 size. 



But one species of this genus is as yet known," a Japanese tree 



• SiEB. ami Zccc, Tl. Jap., 83, t. 39, 40. — • These are a sort of uneciuul horizontal 



Endl., (iin., 11. 1714. — MiKUS., Contrih., i. wriiiklfs, whose existence even is not consUuit. 



11-1.— Eufii.EU.in Flora (IHGl),!!'); (1HG5),12; rerhnps, imleed, they are only the effeeU of do- 



Journ. of Jiut.,\\\. 150; Flur. lirtis. Maifnuliiw,, siccation. 



131. — K. H., Gen., 17, \)'i\. ^ (JyiiDumlhua * There are often from six to eijfht. 



Ju.NoH., in IIoKV. and Dk Vuikue, 2'ijdschr., * There are olli-n six in each row. The r.i phi's 



vii., 308 (ni-c AitTT.). of those of the one row are turned towards tlioso 



^ Tlie cM\* are stMiiowhut nearer the outer of the other, 



than the inner face of the anther. The coiinet- ' 7*. ara/it)»(/M Sikh, and Zrcc, /or. ciV. The 



tivo ends in a somewliat projeclinj;, rulhcr obtuse huhit and foliage do, in fact, n«cail those of st'vcral 



tip. Aruliacea, an order to whirJt Ub.ntiuu &, 



