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II. PACHYGONE^E. 



9. Pachygone Miers. — Flowers of Cocculus. Carpels 3 ; styles 

 somewhat thickened. Drupes reniform or subglobose, more rarely 

 oblong compressed (Hyperbana) ; scar of style scarcely removed from 

 base ; putamen slightly excavated on either side ; process intruded. 

 Seed hippocrepiform, exalbuminous. Embryo thick fleshy ; ra- 

 dicle short; cotyledons semicylindrical. — Leaves ovate or oblong, 

 subcoriaceous. Flowers in cymiferous racemes (Asia, Tropical 

 America). See p. 7. 



10. Haematocarpus Miers. — Flowers almost of Pachygone; 

 sepals 9-15, in 3-5 series; the inner gradually larger. Petals 6. 

 Stamens 6, free, irregular, with apex more or less incurved, clavate ; 

 anther-cells lateral. Female flowers . . . ? Drupes large, ovoid, 

 smooth ; cicatrix of style slightly removed from base ; endocarp 

 thin ; process intruded. Seed hippocrepiform ; exalbuminous embryo 

 of the same form, suberose-fleshy. — Leaves coriaceous, ovate or 

 oblong ; petiole thickened at base and apex, flowers in branched 

 cymiferous racemes (East India). See p. 8. 



11. Pycnarrhena Miers. — Sepals 6, in 2 series, concave. Petals 

 6, in 2 series, subsimilar, much smaller. Stamens about 9, ap- 

 proximated into a short mass nearly flat at summit, or else 

 distinctly free at base ; anthers erect ; cells confluent at apex, de- 

 hiscing by 2 longitudinal slits. Female flower. . . ? Drupes 3, 

 reniform, somewhat laterally hollowed; process of thin putamen 

 scarcely intruded ; scar of style lateral ; embryo incurved ; radicle 

 very short; cotyledons thick. — Stems climbing; leaves oblong 

 penninerved ; inflorescence either short and densely crowded, or 

 lax and slender pedunculate, collected in axils of leaves or at old 

 nodes (East India, Borneo). See p. 8. 



12. Chondodendron Euiz & Pav. — Sepals 9-12, or more rarely 

 15-18, in 3 rows, gradually enlarging from base; inner 3 some- 

 times thickened at margin a little above base, subpetaloid, apex 

 reflexed. Petals 6, in 2 series, either shortly orbicular, or elongated 

 and much narrowed at base. Stamens 6 (sterile in female flower), 

 free or connate at base ; filaments inflexed at apex ; connective 



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