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ovule (1 ?) basilar erect. — A shrub ; leaves penniveined ; flowers 

 solitary terminal {Bor/ieo). See p. 208. 



12. Bocagea A. S. H. — Flowers usually small ; sepals short, free 

 or connate for a variable height. Petals 6, valvate, 2-seriate, 

 outer sessile, inner sessile or more or less contracted at the base. 

 Stamens (of the Mlliaspcs), definite (3, 6, 9) subdefinite, or co, outer 

 ones shorter. Carpels 3-6, or oo, more rarely 1 ; ovules either 1, 2, 

 subbasilar, or oo, ventral 2-seriate. Berries 1-co, 1-oo-seeded, 

 usually stipitate. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves often with pellucid dots ; 

 flowers solitary or cymose, terminal or axillary {Trop. Ada, Islands 

 east of Africa, S. America). See p. 20^. 



13. Popowia Endl. — Flowers small hermaphrodite, more rarely 

 dicecious. Calyx 3-merous. Petals 6, valvate, the outer sessile, 

 the inner nearly equal or longer, usually tapering at the base, 

 finally spreading or connivent. Stamens, subdefinite, or oo, the 

 inner coherent side to side in a verticil ; outer ones shorter, fertile, 

 or sterile cylindrical capitate or truncate ; fertile stamens, unequally 

 obconical or obpyramidal, terete for a short distance at base, or 

 elongated, tapering or flattened ; towards the apex thickened rugose 

 or glandular ; apex flat or obliquely truncate, more rarely concave ; 

 produced inwards into wedges of variable obtusity, more rarely 

 much elongated, more or less oblique ; cells sublateral or extrorse, 

 dehiscmg longitudinally ; locelli 2, oblique or collateral. Carpels 

 subdefinite or co ; ovules 1-2, subbasilar, or co, 2-seriate : style of 

 variable fonn. Fruit of free 1- or 2- cc -seeded berries, constricted 

 between the seeds. — Shrubs often climbing; leaves usually gla- 

 brescent, below glaucescent ; flowers axillary or lateral, solitary or 

 cymose {Tropical Asia, tropical and southern Africa, Islands of Mada- 

 gascar, tropical Australia). See p. 212. 



§ III. Xylopie^. 



14. Xylopia L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle conical ex- 

 ternally staminiferous, apex flattened or slightly concave, more fre- 

 quently much excavated, lodging the ovaries. Petals 6, 2-seriate, 

 valvate ; outer narrowly elongated concave connivent or open, more 

 rarely flattened sessile 3-angular ; inner usually included, above tri- 



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