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aril, and contain a small embryo witliin the fleshy albumen.^ The 

 leaves are nearly entire or dentate, or often pinnatilobed or dissected, 

 recalling forcibly those of some of the Crowfoots or Potentillas. 

 The venation is pinnate, with transverse or slig-htly oblique veins, 

 all parallel. By their flowers the Acrotremas are hardly distin- 

 guishable from the Tetraceras, of which they possess all the essential 

 characters. 



* The fruit of A. WalTceri Wight is sur- provided with an aril consisting of a fragile and 



rounded by the calyx and some dried up stamens. translucent tisstie and chiefly contained in the 



It consists of three carpels surmounted by the notch corresponding to the hilum. The testa is 



persistent styles. The seeds are numerous, curved, covered with little pittings. 



