TAXONOMY 



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stipulate, pinnately compound, rarely simple and entire. Inflor- 

 escence a terminal or axillary raceme. Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 rarely polygamo-dicecious, regular; sepals five to four, small; petals 

 usually five to four, hypogynous; 'stamens generally ten to eight 



FIG. 209. Commiphora myrrha Branch. (Sayre.) 



rarely five, very rarely twenty to sixteen, inserted outside the base 

 of the hypogynous disc; filaments united into a tube; carpels usually 

 five to three; style simple; ovary free, usually five- to three-celled. 

 Fruit a drupe (Melia), berry (Vavaea), or capsule (Cedrella). Seeds 

 exalbuminous or with fleshy albumen. 



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