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nate, or co ; filaments free slender ; anthers sub-2-dymous, introrsely 

 or laterally rimose. Grermen altogether or almost wholly superior, 

 hairy, completely or incompletely 2 -celled ; styles 2, usually rather 

 remote at base, slender recurved, stigmatose at unthickened apex ; 

 ovules oo , anatropous, co -seriate, transverse or ascending. Capsule 

 sub-2-dymous compressed, sometimes truncate at apex, loculicidally 

 2-valved from apex; valves sometimes bipartite; seeds go; testa 

 coriaceous granulate ; embryo axile nearly terete ; albumen fleshy. — 

 Branching shrubs, glabrous or glandular-hairy ; leaves opposite, 3- 

 foliolate (spuriously verticillate) ; leaflets sessile serrate ; stipules ; 

 flowers solitary axillary pedunculate, subsessile by lateral leaves, or 

 subsessile (thence subcapitate) by superior leaves {Eastern Temperate 

 and Southern Australia). See p. 368. 



XIII. CUNONIEiE. 



64. Cunonia L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle rather 

 convex. Calyx 5-merous ; leaflets deciduous, connate at base ; 

 prrofloration slightly imbricate. Petals as many, imbricate inserted 

 with alternate sepals under edge of glandular hypogynous (10-fur- 

 rowed) disk. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, hypogynous with petals; fila- 

 ments free exserted ; anthers small, 2-dymous, introrse 2-rimose. 

 Germen superior; cells 2, complete or incomplete ; styles bipartite 

 branches subulate-elongated, persistent, simple at stigmatose apex ; 

 ovules co , 2-seriately descending in each cell. Capsule coriaceous 

 ovoid-subcompressed, 2 -beaked, septicidally 2-valved ; valves boat- 

 shaped, gaping above within ; exocarp usually seceding from endo- 

 carp. Seeds co , oblong angulate compressed ; testa membranous 

 slightly winged ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo 

 oblong. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite petiolate, 3-foliolate or 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets 2, 3-jugal, glandular-serrate ; stipules large 

 oblong coriaceous, valvate, soon caducous ; flowers racemose ; 

 racemes axillary dense, opposite, straight, cymiferous on opposite 

 sides [South Africa, New Caledonia). See p. 369. 



65 ? Weinmannia L. — Flowers nearly of Cunonia, hermaphrodite 

 or polygamous, 4, 5-merous ; receptacle sometimes shortly concave. 

 Calyx persistent or deciduous. Stamens 8-10, inserted in base of 



