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thick ; radicle superior. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate simple 

 persistent; stipules small deciduous; flowers racemose axillary or 

 lateral. [Tropical Asia, Malai/sia, eastern tropical Asia.) See p. 410. 



52. Maddenia Hook. F. & Thoms. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; 

 receptacle and 10-merous calyx of Pyy(?^('w. Petals 5-10, linear con- 

 founded with calyx. Stamens 20-30 {oi Pygeim). Carpels, of male 

 flowers solitary tapering into a slender capitate style : of female 

 flowers 2 ; ovary truncate apex crowned by an oblique sessile stigma ; 

 ovules 2, descending (of Priinus). Drupes 2, subcorapressed gla- 

 brous ; putamen crustaceous, 1 -seeded, sometimes smooth sometimes 

 3-keeled. {Temperate India.) See p. 411. 



53. Prinsepia Royle. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle 

 broadly cyathiform. Calyx 5-partite imbricated. Petals 5, shortly 

 unguiculate, imbricated. Stamens 20-30 (of the BosacecB) ; filaments 

 inflexed, inserted in throat of receptacle ; anther-cells 2 discrete 

 introrse rimose. Carpel 1, central; ovary shortly stipitate, 1 -celled; 

 style terminal;, apex capitate stigmatiferous. Ovules 2, collaterally 

 descending, micropyle dorsal superior obturated. Fruit oblique 

 drupaceous anatropous, with persistent style and withered receptacle 

 at base ; putamen coriaceous 1 -seeded. Seed ascending ; embryo 

 exalbuminous fleshy oily ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle inferior. 

 — A branching shrub, twigs spinescent ; leaves alternate simple 

 serrulate deciduous ; stipules 2, lateral minute ; flowers axillary 

 shortly racemose. {Temperate India.) See p. 411. 



54 ? Streplionema Hook. F. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous; 

 receptacle and perianth of Prinsepia. Stamens 8-10 {ol Prinsejna), 

 5 alternipetalous, 5 oppositipetalous. Carpel 1, central; ovary partly 

 inferior, at base adnate to receptacle ; style terminal, at apex con- 

 tracted stigmatiferous. Ovules 2, ventral collateral, amphitropous 

 or descending; micropyle below umbilicus or slightly ascending; 

 micropyle inferior. Fruit ? . . . . — Trees, glabrous or silky- pilose, 

 branching ; leaves opposite and alternate, simple coriaceous ; ilowers 

 axillary to leaves, corymbose or corymbose-subumbellate. {West of 

 tropical Africa^ See p. 412. 



55. Nuttallia Torr. & CIr. — Flowers pol3^gamo-dia3cious ; ro- 

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