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hardly cupulate. Sepals short, deciduous. Petals alternate, valvate 

 deciduous. Stamens alternipatalous hypogynous under edge of 

 scarcely conspicuous disk ; anthers oblong, introrse 2-rimose. Germen 

 oblong-conical ; cells complete ; placentas axile, co -ovulate ; style 

 short thick, 5, 6-lobsd. Berry small oblong; cells 5, 6, many seeded. 

 Seeds subglobose ; testa crustaceous cancellate ; albumen fleshy oily ; 

 embryo axile short. — A shrub ; leaves alternate broad petiolate 

 exstipulate lanceolate acuminate subserrate membranous ; flowers in 

 usually 2-chotomous, pedunculate, axillary or terminal cymes {South- 

 east Australia). See p. 359. 



53. Cuttsia F. Muell. — Flowers nearly of Abrophylfam, 5-7- 

 merous ; receptacle shortly cupulate. Sepals valvate, petals and 

 stamens equal in number; anthers subovate. Germen for the most 

 part superior ; cells 5-7, co -ovulate ; style erect cylindrical ; apex 

 5-7-lobed stigmatose. Capsule almost wholly superior, loculicidally 

 5-7-valved. — A shrub ; habit leaves and inflorescence of Abrojphyllum 

 (East Australia). See p. 359. 



X. PITTOSPOBE^E. 



54. Pittosporum Banks. — Flowers regular ; receptacle convex 

 or slightly concave. Sepals 5, free or connate at base ; pignoration 

 imbricate. Petals as many, alternate, sometimes very much narrowed 

 at base, free or connivent, more or less highly coherent or connate ; 

 prsefloration imbricate or twisted. Stamens 5 ; filaments subulate, 

 free or coherent with alternate petals ; anthers erect ovate-oblong, 

 longitudinally 2-rimose introrse. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate, 

 imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled (more rarely 3-5-celled) ; style erect ; 

 apex stigmatose, capitate or more or less lobate. Ovules co on each 

 placenta, 2-seriate, anatropous, often ascending. Capsule ovoid 

 obovoid or subglobose, often rather compressed; valves 2 (more 

 rarely 3-5), coriaceous or subligneous, bearing placentiferous half- 

 septa in middle. Seeds co , often nestling in viscid fluid, rarely 

 marginate-alate (Hj/meuosporum) ; albumen fleshy or horny ; embryo 

 minute contained in a small cavity of albumen near the hilum. — 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate or subverticillate at apices of 



