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imbedded in resinous pulp. — Trees or shrubs often climbing ; 

 flowers terminal or suboppositifolious on a gemmiferous twig 

 {JF. and E. of Tropical Africa, Madagascar). See p. 239. 



IV. EUPOMATIE^. 



29. Eupomatia R. Br. — Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 0. 

 Stamens oo, perigynous, and carpels oc, in a spiral within the con- 

 cavity of the turbinate receptacle. Outer stamens fertile ; anthers 

 2-celled extrorse, dehiscing longitudinally ; connective acuminate 

 above the cells ; inner sterile petaloid, glandular or not glandular, 

 imbricated ; all connate at base, finally deciduous together. Car- 

 pels immersed in the torus, free except the very base ; ovary 

 <x-ovulate, the back produced into a horizontal areola; style short, 

 rather prominent internally, apex stigmatiferous capitate. Fruit 

 baccate within the urceolate turbinate receptacle, marginate above ; 

 berries oc, included l-cc-seeded. Seeds [oi \l\e J/i07iacea) ; albumen 

 slightly ruminated. — Shrubs ; stem erect or chiefly subterranean ; 

 leaves alternate glabrous; flowers solitary terminal or 1, 2, axillary, 

 superposed, accompanied by a leaf bud [Australia). See p. 242. 



