480 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



outer perianth-leaves ; filaments free, 1- or 2-glandular at base; 

 anthers basifixed ; connective thick ; cells 2, lateral subintrorse, 

 finally dehiscing by valves. Female flower : — receptacle urceolate, 

 glandular rugose halfway up outside ; mouth much constricted. 

 Perianth inserted in mouth; leaves 8 or more rarely 10, 2-seriate 

 valvate deciduous. Glands 4 (staminodes ?) opposite outer leaves 

 and inserted along with perianth. Germen included in receptacle 

 1 -celled ovule 1, descending from near apex of cell, anatropous ; 

 style slender, traversed by 1 longitudinal groove ; apex stigmatife- 

 rous dilated, unequally crenate or lobed. Fruit dry indehiscent 

 1 -seeded, enveloped by truncate umbilicate receptacle, which is 

 smooth outside or S-10-grooved and slightly glandular at base. 

 Seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick fleshy ruminate ; radicle 

 superior short Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate coriaceous, some- 

 times peltate, entire, palmi- or pinnativeined ; flowers forming a ter- 

 minal or axillary raceme of cymes ; cymes (?) pedunculate ternate ; 

 common involucre 4-leaved foliaceous inserted on top of peduncle ; 

 central flower female subsessile, possessing at base a truncate or 

 4-toothed cupulate or shortly-urceolate proper involucel ; involucel 

 accrescent, dilating into a bladder with truncate mouth around fruit 

 and receptacle (Tropica/ America, Oceania, and Asia). See p. 445. 



