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spreading, valvate. Petals 6, in 2 series, short involute. Stamens 

 3, central, alternating with inner sepals ; filaments free terete sub- 

 reflexed with thickened apex ; anthers small, nearly didymous ; 

 2-rimose. Female flower. . . ? Drupes 3-6, reniform ; scar of style 

 lateral; putamen scarcely hollowed; intruded process 0. "Seed 

 reniform attached by centre of side ; embryo exalbuminous, reniform ; 

 cotyledons thick, almost conferruminate ; radicle hardly distinguish- 

 able." — Climbing shrub; leaves ovate; flowers in short branched 

 axillary racemes {East Subtropical Australia). See p. 9. 



16. Triclisia Benth. — Sepals 6-15, in 2-5 series ; outer imbricate, 

 gradually increasing in size towards inner ones ; inner 3-6, larger, 

 subpetaloid, valvate. Stamens 3 or 6, incurved at apex ; anthers 

 lateral or subintrorse, 2-locular, rimose, apex muticous or apiculate. 

 Female flower. . . ? Drupes 3 (?)-oo , nearly straight or scarcely 

 reniform ; scar of style lateral ; putamen scarcely hollowed ; process 

 intruded, small ; embryo of similar shape, exalbuminous, thick, 

 fleshy ; cotyledons very unequal, one minute subabortive, the other 

 very thick, subcylindrical, slightly incurved. — Leaves ovate orbiculate 

 or cordate. Flowers in axillary or lateral cymes either short and 

 densely crowded or laxer with many flowers {West Tropical Africa). 

 See p. 9. 



17. Rameya H. Bn. — Male flowers. . . ? Perianth of female 

 flowers of . . . unequal leaves. Stamens linear. Carpels co , globose- 

 capitate ; ovule 1, arcuate; style slender, linear subulate. Drupes 

 go, stipitate obovate -compressed hippocrepiform ; scar of style a 

 little way from base ; process of putamen intruded from base. Seed 

 uncinate-incurved, induplicate on lamina, exalbuminous. Embryo 

 of similar shape ; cotyledons markedly unequal ; the smaller 

 abortive, the larger hippocrepiform, fleshy, thick. — A climbing 

 shrub ; leaves alternate subcoriaceous 3 -ribbed at base ; flowers 

 inserted on the wood ; female flowers few subcymose {Madagascar). 

 See p. 10. 



III. CHASMANTHERE-E. 



18. Chasmanthera Hochst. — Flowers almost of Com^s; sepals 

 usually 6, in 2 series. Petals 6, much smaller, concave. Stamens 6 



