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into a terminal subglobose head, dehiscing transversely. Carpels 3 ; 

 styles subulate, recurved. Drupes ovate ; scar of style subterminal ; 

 putamen tuberculate on outer surface, rostrate above, deeply hollowed 

 within ; process intruded hemispherical. Seed meniscoid ; albumen 

 fleshy homogeneous ; embryo curved ; radicle long ; cotyledons 

 ovate, laterally divaricate. — Leaves sagittate. Flowers in axillary 

 dichotomous cymes {India). See p. 14. 



25. Aspidocarya Hook. & Thoms. — Mowers of Parabana; 

 sepals 6-1 2, in 2-4 series ; inner ones wider. Petals 6, shorter, 

 cuneate. Stamens 0, united into a peltate column ; anthers hori- 

 zontal, sessile at margin. Carpels 3; styles short, subcapitate. 

 Drupes compressed from the back ; scar of style subterminal ; 

 putamen carinate at back ; flattened within, scarcely intruded. Seed 

 oblong, conspicuously marked inside by raphe ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo inverted; radicle short; cotyledons flattened, divaricate at 

 base, parallel at apex. — Leaves cordate or subpeltate. Flowers in 

 branched elongated racemose cymes {Himalaya). See p. 14. 



26. Anamirta Colebr. — Sepals 6, in 2 series, or 9-12; outer 

 3-6 much smaller, bract-like. Petals 0. Stamens (6-9, sterile, 

 free, in female flower) go ; anthers capitate 6-seriate on top of a short 

 vertical column, crowded and compressed, 4-lobular, horizontally 

 rimose. Carpels 3 (rarely 4-6) ; stigmata subcapitate. Drupes 

 stipitate, obliquely ovate-reniform ; scar of style a little way from 

 base ; putamen woody, glabrous ; process intruded within, strongly 

 2-lobed. Seed externally subglobose, hollowed within ; albumen 

 subcorneous (scattered in farinaceous lumps) ; embryo incurved ; 

 radicle cylindrical superior; cotyledons very thin, divaricating, 

 shorter than albumen. — Stems climbing; leaves large, usually 

 cordate at ba^e ; flowers in elongated branched racemes hanging 

 from the older branches {Tropical Asia). See p. 15. 



27. Coscinium Colebr.— Sepals 9, in 3 series, inner larger, sub- 

 petaloid. " Stamens 6 (sterile in female flower); outer 3 free; 

 anthers 1-celled; inner connate as far as middle; anthers 2-celled. 

 Carpels 3-6; styles subulate, recurved." Drupes subglobose; 

 putamen bony ; process intruded near base, stipitate and peltate. 



