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number than petals, free ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally sub- 

 laterally. Carpel 1; style short; apex peltate-dilated; ovary 1- 

 locular ; placenta parietal, co -ovulate ; ovules anatropous, in oo 

 series, ascending. Berry indehiscent ; seeds go , each embedded in 

 the fleshy-pulpy aril (?) springing from placenta ; embryo small ; 

 albumen fleshy, abundant. — Perennial herbs ; rhizome creeping ; 

 leaves peltate, palminerved and palmately lobed ; flower solitary on 

 a scape-like branch, terminal, nutant beyond 1, 2 leaves (Temperate 

 Asia, North America). See p. 58. 



14. Jeffersonia Bart. — Sepals 3-6, subpetaloid, caducous. Petals 

 about 8, larger than sepals, imbricate, caducous. Stamens 8, free ; 

 anthers basifixed ; anther-cells subextrorse, dehiscing longitudinally 

 sublaterally ; outer part of each cell eventually dehiscing by upraised 

 valves. Carpel almost of Podophyllum ; ovules oo , horizontal or 

 oblique, in go series ; raphe superior. Capsule coriaceous, dehiscing 

 by a horizontal or oblique apical operculum. Seeds go , with a short 

 torn aril at apex ; embryo small apical. — Herbs ; rhizome perennial ; 

 leaves radical alternate palmi-ribbed, 2-lobed or 2-partite ; flowers 

 solitary pedunculate (North America, Mantchuria). See p. 59. 



15. Diphylleia Michx. — Flowers almost of Podophyllum ; sepals 

 petaloid ; petals 6. Stamens 6, free ; anthers dehiscing by 2 up- 

 raised valves. Carpel 1 ; ovules oo , in 2 series, ascending ; style 

 very short ; apex stigmatose orbicular depressed. Berry of Po- 

 dophyllum. — Perennial herbs ; rhizome horizontal ; leaves of Po- 

 dophyllum ; flowers oo in a terminal umbellate cyme at top of scape 

 (North America, East Asia). See p. 60. 



16. Achlys DC. — Flowers hermaphrodite; perianth 0. Stamens 

 6-12 ; filaments free, filiform, unequal, dilated at apex ; anthers 

 basifixed, short ; anther-cells 2, dehiscing inwards by upraised valves. 

 Carpel 1 ; style slightly dilated into a stigmatose head ; ovule 1 , 

 anatropous, suberect from base of ovary. Fruit capsular (" dehiscing 

 dorsally by 2 valves" ?). — Perennial herbs ; rhizome creeping ; leaves 

 radical, palmately ribbed 3-partite ; flowers naked, collected on 

 terminal spike (North-west America, North-east Asia). See p. 61. 



