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Courbonid), or co , reniform ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons incumbent- 

 convolute ; radicle superior. — Small trees or shrubs, unarmed or 

 spiuescent ; leaves alternate 1-3-foliolate ; stipules minute or ; 

 flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or in corymbose racemes {South- 

 west Asia, continental and insular East Tropical Africa). See p. 15S. 



IV. EOPALOCARPE^]. 



16. Ropalocarpus Boj. — Flowers hermaphrodite, regular; sepals 

 4, in 2 imbricate series. Petals 4, alternate, ver}*- thin, dentate or 

 subincised at apex, imbricate, corrugated. Stamens go, inserted 

 with perianth ; filaments free, plicate-corrugated in bud ; anthers 

 introrse 2-celled 2-riinose. Grermen inserted at top of receptacle by a 

 short broadly obconical stipe with a glandular apex, completely or 

 incompletely 2-celled ; ovules 2-4, inserted near base of each cell of 

 placenta, suberect anatropous; micropyle introrse inferior; style 

 slender subulate ; apex subentire stigmatose. Fruit dry (?) in- 

 dehiscent, externally suberous, bristling with thick conical prickles, 

 2-celled ; one cell rudimentary, seedless ; the other incurved about 

 the sterile one, apiculate, 1 -seeded. Seed suberect; test, crus- 

 taceous ; embryo subcorneous, deeply ruminated, erect ; radicle 

 short conical inferior ; cotyledons broadly membranous, hyaline, 

 laciniate and lobed ; lobes go , corrugated-plicate, included between 

 lamina? of albumen. — A glabrous shrub; leaves alternate simple 

 entire; stipules 2 small, connate to a variable height into 1, 

 intrapetiolar ; flowers small in axillary cymes (?) {Madagascar). 

 See p. 160. 



V.? MOBINGE^E. 



17. Moringa Burm. — Flowers hermaphrodite irregular; receptacle 

 cyathiform, lined by a disk, obliquely truncate. Sepals 5, slightly 

 unequal ; sestivation quincuncial. Petals 5, alternate, unlike ; the 

 anterior one internal, erect at anthesis ; lateral and superior ones 

 smaller, finally reflexed. Stamens 10, inserted with the peri- 

 gynous perianth ; filaments free, decimate ; anterior ones longer ; 5 

 oppositipetalous, often antherless, sometimes reduced to seta? ; anthers 



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