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truncate or contracted part projecting inwards above the cells ; 

 sterile subdefinite, scale-like thick exterior to the fertile ones. 

 Carpels go, or often subdefinite (3-G) inserted on the scarcely convex 

 pitted receptacle ; ovules oc, ventral 2-seriate. Fruit of a few 

 subglobose few-seeded berries. — Trees ; leaves very glabrous shining 

 (laurel-like) ; flowers few small axillary cymose and hermaphrodite, 

 more rarely unisexual {India). See p. 195. 



4. Tetrapetalum Mtq. — Sepals 2, imbricated. Petals 4, imbri- 

 cated, 2-seriate. Stamens co, imbricated on a convex receptacle ; 

 connective truncately dilated above the anther-cells. Carpels oo, pris- 

 matic ; ovules oc, ventral 2-seriate ; style short glabrous, grooved 

 longitudinally. Fruit... — A climbing twining tomentose shrub; 

 flowers in dense lateral or leaf-opposed spikes {Borneo). See p. 196. 



5. Cananga Aubl. — Sepals 3, free or cohering at base, valvate. 

 Petals 6, 2-seriate. inner ones nearly equal to or larger than outer, 

 all imbricated or outer set subvalvate. Stamens oo ; connective 

 truncately dilated above anther-cells ; receptacle convex, often sub- 

 globose, pistilliferous apex truncate flat or slightly concave and sub- 

 cupuliform. Carpels oo ; ovule subbasilar ascending ; micropyle 

 inferior extrorse. Berries oc, stipitate, 1-seeded. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves penniveined ; flowers pedunculate, usually solitary, more 

 rarely in small cymes, axillary or lateral, rarely terminal {N. and 

 subtropical America). Seep. 197. 



6. Aberemoa Aubl. — Sepals 3, free, more rarely connate at the 

 base, valvate. Petals 6, imbricated 2-seriate Stamens oc, aU 

 fertile, or the outermost sterile petaloid imbricate. Carpels oo ; 

 ovule solitary subbasilar. Berries fleshy or woody, often beaked, 

 free or connate for a variable height. — Trees or shrubs, scurfy or 

 stellately tomentose ; flowers solitary or in small cymes, terminal or 

 leaf-opposed, more rarely lateral {S. America). See p. 198. 



7. Cleistochlamys Oliv. — Calyx globose gamophyllous valvate, 

 closed in the bud, finally breaking into a few unequal segments 

 at anthesis. Petals 6, 2-seriate, sessile, imbricated. Stamens oo, 

 obpyramidal, inserted on a rather convex receptacle ; connective 

 truncately dilated above anther-cells. Carpels few, tapering into 



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