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bract-like in 2 series ; inner 3 much longer, connate high up into 

 a long conical bud, valvate; apex alone free. Petals 6, minute, 

 orbicular-glanduliform, in 2 series. Stamens 6-10, filaments con- 

 nate at base, clavate, erect ; anther-cells sublateral, adnate a little 

 beneath apex, longitudinally rimose. Female flower and fruit. . . . ? 



Stems and branches slender ; leaves cordate 5-nerved, pilose with 



red or brownish hairs. Male flower axillary ; pedicles slender soli- 

 tary or more seldom in pairs (Tropical West Africa). See p. 6. 



7. Anomospermum Miers. — Sepals, outer 3 small ; inner 3 alter- 

 nate, much larger, thick fleshy orbicular imbricate. Petals 6, in 2 sub- 

 equal series, each folded round the superposed stamen, thick fleshy, 

 with very incurved margins. Stamens 6, free, wanting or sterile in 

 female flower, slender, longer than petals in male ; anthers introrse, 

 2-celled, 2-rimose. Carpels 3, free ; style very short, at once ex- 

 panding into a wide stigmatose head spreading downwards. Drupes 

 oblong, straight ; scar of style terminal ; a straight ventral vertical 

 thin lamina intruded within putamen. Seed oblong straight, tra- 

 versed by a groove receiving lamina of putamen ; albumen strongly 

 ruminated, incompletely septate transversely ; embryo (almost as 

 long as albumen) terete or slightly compressed, straight ; cotyledons 

 appressed, radicle superior. — A climbing shrub, leaves simple, coria- 

 ceous, entire, oblong-acute ; male flowers in solitary or fasciculate 

 racemes; female flowers solitary or subsolitary [Tropical America). 

 See p. 6. 



8. Sarcopetalum F. Muell. — Sepals 6, or more rarely 3-5, un- 

 equal, 2-seriate. Petals 3-6, longer than calyx, thick fleshy, un- 

 equally obovoid, or obpyramidal, narrowed at base, depressed or sub- 

 globose and subrugose above. Stamens 2-4, inserted on erect column ; 

 apex with 2-4 slightly divaricating lobes ; anther-cells adnate, horizon- 

 tally parallel. Female flower: Perianth of male. Carpels 3-6; 

 styles reflected ; apex 2-3-lobed. Drupes compressed ; cicatrix of 

 style scarcely removed from base. Putamen seed and albuminous 

 embryo of Cocculus. — Stems climbing, leaves broad, cordate at base ; 

 flowers in simple lateral solitary or fasciculate racemes {Australia). 

 See p. 7. 



