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apex capitate stigmatiferous, 1, 2-lobed; ovule 1, subbasilar ascending 

 campylotropous ; micro pyle inferior anterior. Fruit baccate, some- 

 times finally exsuccous ; seed suberect ; testa glabrous or scabrous 

 embryo annular peripheral, encircling central farinaceous albumen 

 cotyledons unequal, exterior larger, involving smaller. — Underslirubs 

 stem erect, sometimes climbing ; leaves alternate petiolate, simple, 

 entire, or crenulate ; stipules or very minute ; flowers in terminal 

 racemes finally lateral, or sub-leaf-opposed; bracts alternate, 1 -flowered; 

 bracelets 2, laterally inserted towards the apex of the pedicel 

 {Warm or Temperate America, India?). See p. 33. 



9. Mohlana Mart. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx irregular 4-tid, 

 anterior lobe almost free at the base ; the other, on the contrary, as 

 if in one, unequal 3-lobed (middle lobe largest) connate, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5 (of Bivina), alternating with lobes of the calyx. Germen 

 and ovule of Bivina ; style sublateral short ; apex truncate, subcapi- 

 tate stigmatiferous. Fruit surrounded by erect calyx, either subfleshy 

 immarginate {Mohlanella), or subcoriaceous exsuccous longitudinally 

 reticulate-nerved at margin (Hitteria). Seed of Bivina. — Under- 

 shrubs or herbs ; leaves alternate petiolate ; stipules minute ; flowers 

 in simple terminal or leaf-opposed racemes; pedicels 1-bracteate, at 

 the apex 2-bracteolate {Warm America, Tropical Western Africa, Mada- 

 gascar). See p. 35. 



10. Ledenbergia Kl. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular ; sepals 

 4, imbricate. Stamens 10-12, of which the 4 exterior alternate with 

 sepals ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary and ovule of 

 Bivina; st} 7 le thick, curved ; apex capitellate papillose-penicillate. 

 Fruit encircled by the greatly accrescent rotate expanded membrano- 

 nerved sepals, subcoriaceous nerved, indehiscent. Seed nearly of 

 Bivina. — Volubile underslirubs ; leaves alternate, petiolate ; stipules 

 very small ; flowers in axillary racemes, solitary or 2-nate pendulous ; 

 pedicel 1-bracteate, with 2 bractlets very small inserted at apex {Cen- 

 tral America). See p. 35. 



11. Petiveria Plum. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous; recep- 

 tacle obconical, concave. Sepals 4, of which the 2 anterior rise from 

 the edge of receptacle, imbricate, afterwards open, finally erecto-ad- 

 pressed to fruit. Stamens either 4, alternisepalous, or 5-8, interior 



