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Gyrocarpus ; perianth 4-G-leaved. Stamens 4-0, opposite perianth- 

 leaves (sterile in female flower), filaments slender glandless ; anthers 

 apiculate linear introrse. Germen included in very concave recep- 

 tacle of female or hermaphrodite flower, 1 -ovulate ; style cylindrical 

 erect, apex subhemispherical-capitate stigmatiferous. Fruit inferior 

 wingless dry, completely enveloped in thin receptacle ; seed exalbu- 

 minous embryo fleshy ; cotyledons corrugated contortuplicate. — 

 Shrubs ; leaves alternate tripli- or subtripliveined ; inflorescences (of 

 Gyrocarpus) axillary or subaxillary {Tropical America). See p. 443. 



VII. ILLIGEEE^E. 



51. Illigera Bl. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; receptacle 

 narrowly urceolate, constricted into a neck above. Perianth and 

 stamens inserted in throat. Perianth-leaves (10 rarely 8) in 2 alter- 

 nate whorls, valvate ; inner subsimilar to outer, a little thinner ; all 

 deciduous. Stamens 5, alternate with inner perianth-leaves, epi- 

 gynous ; filaments free, each bearing at base 2 somewhat external 

 lateral cucullate obliquely truncate glands forming pairs opposite 

 inner perianth-leaves; anthers basifixed; connective thick sub- 

 cuneate ; cells 2, introrse sublateral, dehiscing by valves, finally ex- 

 panded. Glands 5, small external to stamens oppositipetalous. 

 Germen included in receptacle, 1 -celled ; ovule 1, descending from 

 nearly apex of cell, anatropous ; style slender, traversed by 1 longi- 

 tudinal groove ; apex stigmatiferous much dilated peltate, or concave 

 above and repand. Fruit coriaceous, narrowly elongated grooved 

 longitudinally indehiscent, induviate by receptacle dilated into 2-4 

 vertical veined wings. Seeds cylindrical ; embryo exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons thick amygdaloid plano-convex ; radicle superior retracted. 

 —Climbing shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 petiolulate entire subcoriaceous ; flowers in elongated pedunculate 

 lax cymiferous racemes ; ramifications bracteate at forks ; bractlets 

 below flower 1-3 {Eastern tropical Jsia, Malaysia). See p. 443. 



VIII. HEKNANDIE.E. 



52. Hernandia Plum. — Flowers monoecious. Male flower: — 

 receptacle very short ; perianth-leaves G or more rarely 8, in 2 

 alternating whorls subsimilar valvate. Stamens 3 or 4, opposite 



