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NATURAL mSTORT OF PLANTS. 



tile, 2-colled dehiscing longitiulinally ; cells parallel on a linear more 

 or less apiculate connective. Carpels oo united into a c/d - celled 

 ovary ; cells sometimes scarcely reaching the axis in the centre, free 

 in tliat part ; styles as man}^ diverging stellately at the base, or 

 sometimes thickening on the nearly distinct apices of the carpels. 

 Ovules vD , subtransverse inserted in 2 rows in the internal angle of 

 each cell. Fruit baccate oo - celled ; seeds qo , imbedded in pulp ; 

 albumen copious ; embryo straight, central, with an elongated cylin- 

 drical radicle ; cotyledons short. — Shrubs often twining ; leaves 

 penniveined ; flowers axillary, solitar}' or few, or often numerous in 

 corymbose cymes {tropical and suhtropical Asia). See p. 110. 



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