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inserted below tlie ovary, and a long basifixed introrse two-celled 

 anther dehiscing longitudinally. In the purely female flowers the 

 anthers are short and included.^ The gyna^ceum is inserted in the very 

 bottom of the flower just as in Lecostemon, and consists of a sessile 

 one-celled ovary, and a gynobasic style dilated into a broad stigma- 

 tiferous plate. On a subbasilar placenta are borne two collateral 

 ascending anatropous ovules, with their micropyles downwards and 

 looking towards the style. The fruit is a drupe, with a thin 

 mesocarp and a thin stone containing a seed, whose embryo is 

 accompanied by only a little albumen. The radicle is inferior, and 

 the thick cotyledons are transversely induplicate. Three species of 

 Stylohcmum are known ;" bushy Australian shrubs, whose alternate 

 simple leaves have stipules, which may be more or less rudimentary 

 or even absent. The flowers are solitary, or in few-flowered cymes 

 in the axils of the leaves. 



b. GyncecevMi excentric. 



The plant from the Mascarene Islands, to which Commerson gave 

 the name of Grangeria^ affords a transition between the genera we 



Chrangeria horbonica. 



Fig. 493. 

 Flower (\^). 



Fig. 494. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



have just studied and those Chrysohalaneai which, as we shall see. 



* They are in this case sterile. 

 2 Nees, in Lehm. Tlant. Preiss., i. 95. 

 Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 427. 



^ CoMMERS., ex J., Gen., .310. — Lamk., I)lcf., 

 iii. 21 ; ///., t. 427.— DC, Prodr., ii. 627.— 

 Endl., Oen., n. 6413.— B. H., Gen., 607, n. 4. 



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