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thick ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate simple 

 persistent; stipules small deciduous; flowers racemose axillary or 

 lateral. {Tropical Asia, Malaysia, eastern tropical Asia.) See p. 410. 



52, Maddenia Hook. F. & Thoms. — Flowers polygamo-diacious ; 

 receptacle and 10-merous calyx oi Pygeiim. Petals 5-10, linear con- 

 founded with calyx. Stamens 20-30 (of PygeuDi). Carpels, of male 

 flowers solitary tapering into a slender capitate style : of female 

 flowers 2 ; ovary truncate apex crowned by an oblique sessile stigma ; 

 ovules 2, descending (of Primus). Drupes 2, subcompressed gla- 

 brous ; putamen crustaceous, 1 -seeded, sometimes smooth sometimes 

 3-keeled. {Temperate India.) See p. 411. 



53. Prinsepia Eoyle. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 broadly cyathiform. Calyx 5-partite imbricated. Petals 5, shortly 

 unguiculate, imbricated. Stamens 20-30 (of the BosacecB) ; filaments 

 inflexed, inserted in throat of receptacle ; anther-cells 2 discrete 

 introrse rimose. Carpel 1, central; ovary shortly stipitate, 1 -celled; 

 style terminal, apex capitate stigraatiferous. Ovules 2, collaterally 

 descending, micropyle dorsal superior obturated. Fruit oblique 

 drupaceous anatropous, with persistent style and withered receptacle 

 at base; putamen coriaceous 1 -seeded. Seed ascending ; embryo 

 exalbuminous fleshy oily ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle inferior. 

 — A branching shrub, twigs spinescent ; leaves alternate simple 

 serrulate deciduous ; stipules 2, lateral minute ; flowers axillary 

 shortly racemose. {Temperate India.) See p. '111. 



54 ? Strephonema Hook. F. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous; 

 receptacle and perianth of Prinsepia. Stamens 8-10 {o^ Prinsepia), 

 5 alternipetalous, 5 oppositipetalous. Carpel 1, central ; ovary partly 

 inferior, at base adnate to receptacle ; style terminal, at apex con- 

 tracted stigmatiferous. Ovules 2, ventral collateral, amphitropuus 

 or descending ; micropyle below umbilicus or slightly ascending ; 

 micropyle inferior. Fruit? . . . . — Trees, glabrous or silky- pilose, 

 branching ; leaves opposite and alternate, simple coriaceous ; flowers 

 axillary to leaves, corymbose or corymbose-subumbellate. {irest of 

 tropical Africa.) See p. 412. 



55. Nuttallia Torii. & Gii. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; re- 



