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more rarely shortly cupuliform summit of the receptacle ; ovules 2 

 subbasilar ascending, or oo ventral 2-seriate {PararlahotrijH) ; style 

 ovate or linear oblong-. Berries 1 -co -seeded. — Climbing or sar- 

 mentose shrubs; leaves shining; flowers solitary or cyniose; pe- 

 duncles often hard fascicled bent into a hook {Asia, tropical and 

 subtropical Africa). See p. 224. 



18. Cyathocalyx Champ.— Calyx cup-shaped 3-dentate valvate. 

 Petals 6 valvate connivent into a globose hood over the sexual 

 organs ; dorsal processes broad petaloid. Stamens go on a convex 

 receptacle ; connective conical truncate above anther-cells. Carpel 1 

 on concave summit of receptacle. Ovules oo in 2 rows, apex of style 

 peltate. Berries 1 -oo -seeded — A tree ; leaves glabrous, flowers 

 solitary or in small cymes, terminal or leaf-opposed {Tropical Asia). 

 See p. 226. 



19. Hexalobus A. DC. — Calyx 3-sepalous valvate or subre- 

 duplicate. Petals G (of CyathocaJijx), 2-seriate valvate corrugated 

 into folds in the bud, dorsal laminae membranous reflexed and rather 

 acute at apex. Stamens oo (of the TJvariea). Carpels subdefinite 

 (usually 3, 6) on the convex or flattened summit of the receptacle ; 

 ovules oo in 2 rows. Berries oblong subentire oc -seeded. — Trees 

 or shrubs, flowers solitary axillary sessile or pedunculate, bracts 2, 

 lateral valvate in volucrant {^Tropical Africa, Madagascar ?). See p . 2 2 6 . 



§ V. OXYMITRE^E. 



20. Oxymitra Bl.- — Sepals 3 free or cohering at base valvate. 

 Petals 6, 2-seriate valvate, the outer flat, ovate or elongated, the 

 inner smaller, at base more or less narrowed and unguiculate, at apex 

 connivent and coherent into a mitre above the sexual organs. Sta- 

 mens and carpels oo ; ovules 1, 2 (more rarely 3-5) inserted at a 

 variable height. Berries 1- more rarely 2- co-seeded. Seeds globose 

 glabrous or bristly ; more rarely triquetrous- winged. — Trees or shrubs 

 often climbing ; leaves obliquely penniveined ; flowers axillary or 

 extra-axillary usually solitary {Asia, Africa, tropical Oceania). See 

 p. 228. 



21 ? Atrutregia Bedd.—" Sepals 4, small. Petals 6, 2.seriate, 



