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simple or branching racemes, usually terminal, rarely axillary 

 {Southern America, especially the West). See p. 348. 



37. Valdivia Kemy. — Flowers nearly of Escallonia, 5-7-merous ; 

 germen perfectly or imperfectly 2, 3-celled. Petals at base bearded 

 inside, valvate. Capsule membranous, indehiscent (?) ; placentas 

 globose foveolate, co -seeded. Seeds minute; testa sulcate ; embryo 

 in base of small oily albumen. — A little low subherbaceous shrub ; 

 leaves alternate or subopposite obovate-lanceolate acute sharply 

 glandular-eroded or dentate, exstipulate ; flowers in short axillary 

 racemes {Chili). See p. 350. 



38. Q,uintinia A. DC. — Flowers nearly of Escallonia ; receptacle 

 obconical. Sepals 5, ovate or 3-angular, minute, persistent, and 

 petals 5, alternate, imbricate, deciduous, inserted in throat of 

 receptacle. Stamens 5, inserted with alternate petals ; anthers 

 ovate introrse. Germen to a great extent inferior ; cells 3-5, com- 

 plete or incomplete ; style stigmatose capitate at apex, 3-5-lobed ; 

 ovules co , 2-seriate. Capsule inferior or half-inferior, 3-5-ribbed ; 

 often 1-celled owing to placentas being more or less retracted, 

 dehiscent at conical vertex between lobes of style. Seeds co , elong- 

 ated fusiform ; testa membranous loose expanded to thin wing ; 

 embryo in fleshy minute albumen. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 persistent alternate petiolate, oblong or lanceolate, entire or serrate, 

 glabrous ; stipules ; flowers in simple or branching axillary and 

 terminal racemes {Australia, New Zealand). See p. 350. 



39. Forgesia Commers. — Eeceptacle turbinate. Sepals 5, free, 

 valvate. Petals 5, connate at very base to a gamopetalous corolla, 

 3-angular, valvate. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted round 

 thick annular disk ; filaments free ; anthers 2-celled, introrse 

 2-rimose. Germen to a great extent inferior; styles 2, free, 

 thickened at base, stigmatose within at thickened sub-2-lobate 

 apex ; cells 2, complete or incomplete ; placentas thick 2-lobed in 

 each cell, ovuliferous on both lobes. Capsule partly superior, 

 2-celled, 2-beaked by styles, dehiscent between styles ; epicarp 

 finally seceding from mesocarp. Seeds co , small... — A small gla- 

 brous shrub (turning black when dried) ; leaves alternate petiolate 



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