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ascending. FRUIT indehiscent or capsular. EMBETO exalbuminous or albuminous. 

 STEM woody. LEAVES generally alternate. 



Large or small TREES with watery juice and cylindric branches. LEAVES 

 alternate, often fascicled at the top of the branches, very rarely opposite (Caryocar, 

 Haploclathra, &c.), usually simple, rarely digitate (Caryocar, Anthodiscus), coriaceous 

 or membranous, penninerved, entire or toothed ; stipules 0, or very rarely 2, 

 minute, caducous. FLOWERS 5 , rarely diclinous (Actinidia, Omphalocarpum, &c.), 

 regular, sometimes axillary, solitary or fascicled, sometimes in a terminal raceme or 

 panicle ; peduncle jointed at its base, naked or bracteate. SEPALS 5, rarely 4-67, 

 free, or slightly connate at the base, imbricate. PETALS 5, rarely 4-6-9, hypogynous, 

 free, or oftener coherent at the base into a ring or short tube, aestivation imbricate 

 or contorted. STAMENS usually indefinite, rarely equal with the petals (Pentaphylax, 

 Pelliciera), or double (Stachyurus) , hypogynous, free or variously coherent at the 

 base, or adherent to the base of the corolla ; anthers basifixed and erect, or dorsifixed 

 and versatile, cells parallel, opening by a slit, or sometimes by an apical pore 

 (Saurauja, Pentaphylax). OVARY free, sometimes more or less buried in the torus 

 (Anneslea, Visnea), base large and sessile, 3-5- (rarely 2-) celled (Pelliciera) , or many- 

 celled (Anthodiscus, Omphalocarpum, &c.) ; styles as many as cells, free or more or 

 less connate ; stigmas pointed or obtuse ; ovules 2-oo in each cell, rarely solitary, 

 erect, or horizontal and anatropous, or pendulous and anatropous, or campylo- 

 tropous, sometimes fixed laterally and semi-anatropous. FRUIT fleshy or coriaceous 

 and indehiscent, or a loculicidal or septicidal capsule. SEEDS numerous or few, 

 fixed to the inner angle of the cells on projecting fleshy or spongy placentas; albu- 

 men often scanty or 0, rarely copious (Actinidia, Saurauja, Stachyurus). EMBRYO 

 straight, curved or coiled ; cotyledons sometimes semi-cylindric, continuous with the 

 radicle, but shorter, sometimes larger, flat, crumpled, folded lengthwise, or thick 

 and fleshy. 



TRIBE I. 1 RHIZOBOLE^E. 



Petals imbricate, or united in a cap. Anthers dorsifixed, sub-versatile. 

 Fruit indehiscent. Seeds solitary in the cells ; albumen or very scanty ; radicle 

 superior, very large, bent at top, or coiled ; cotyledons minute. Leaves digitate. 

 Eacemes terminal. GENERA 



Caryocar. Anthodiscus. 



TRIBE II. TEENSTRCEMIEJE. 



Petals imbricate. Anthers basifixed. Fruit rarely dehiscent. Seeds generally 

 few ; albumen fleshy, usually scanty ; embryo inflexed or arched ; cotyledons 

 shorter and not broader than the radicle. Trees or shrubs. Peduncles one- 

 flowered. PEINCJPAL GENEEA. 



Visnea. * Ternstrcemia. Pentaphylax. Adinandra. Cleyera. Freziera. Eurya. 

 1 These tribes are taken from the ' Genera Plantarum,' omitting Marcgraviea, for which see p. 275. ED. 



