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anatropous ovule, witli the micropyle looking^ upwards and in- 

 wards/ The fruit is multiple, consisting of a variable number of 

 stipitate drupes. Their stalks are very short and partly hidden by 



Horfonia Jlorihunda. 



Fig. 320. 

 Diairrain. 



Fig. 323. 

 Longitudinal section of fruit (y). 



a sheath formed by the receptacle, which persists, covered by the 

 withered pieces of the perianth and androceum, and is sufficiently 

 spreading or reflexed to leave the elements of the fruit free. Each 

 drupe consists of an epicarp and a mesocarp of no great thickness, 

 surrounding a stone that is easily split in half lengthwaj^s. This 

 encloses a descending seed containing a copious fleshy albumen, 

 towards the apex of which is a small dicotyledonous embryo." 



This genus consists of trees from the East Indies ; and two or 



^ Beside this is sometimes seen another ovule, 

 sterile, forming a little sterile cellular mass. 



- The axis of this embryo is oblique to that of 

 the carpel (fig. 323), owing to the obliquity of 

 the seed itself. The cotyledons are elliptical or 



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obovate, and membranous, 3-ribbcd at the base. 

 The radicle is conical, and its apex corre- 

 sponds to a small perforation in the albumen, 

 much more marked in Tamhourissa, Gomoriega, 

 &c. 



