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inserted below the ovary, and a lopg basifixed introrse two-celled 

 anther dehiscing longitudinally. In the purely female flowers the 

 anthers are short and included/ The gynaeceum is inserted in the very 

 bottom of the flower just as in Lecostemon, and consists of a sessile 

 one-celled ovary, and a gynobasic style dilated into a broad stigma- 

 tiferous plate. On a subbasilar placenta are borne two collateral 

 ascending anatropous ovules, with their micropyles downwards and 

 looking towards the style. The fruit is a drupe, with a thin 

 mesocarp and a thin stone containing a seed, whose embryo is 

 accompanied by only a little albumen. The radicle is inferior, and 

 the thick cotyledons are transversely induplicate. Three species of 

 Stylohasiuin are known -^ bushy Australian shrubs, whose alternate 

 simple leaves have stipules, which may be more or less rudimentary 

 or even absent. The flowers are solitary, or in few-flowered cymes 

 in the axils of the leaves. 



b. G-yn(Bceum excentric. 



The plant from the Mascarene Islands, to which Commerson gave 

 the name of Grangeria^ aifords a transition between the genera we 



Ghrangeria horbonica. 



Fig. 493. 

 Flower {^^). 



Fig. 494. 

 Longitudinal section of flow* 



have just studied and those Chrysohalanece which, as we shall see. 



* They are in this case sterile. 

 2 Nees, in Lehm. 'Plant. Freiss., 

 Benth., Fl. Austral, ii. 427. 



^ CoMMEES., ex J., Get).,3i0. — Lamk., D/c/., 

 95.— iii. 21 ; III, t. 427.— DC, Frodr., ii. 527.— 

 Endl., Gen., n, 6413.— B. H., Ger... 607, n. 4. 



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