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elongated, thick, divergent; internally stigmatiferous ; ovule solitary 

 in each cell, ascending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle exterior 

 inferior, thick. Fruit 2-dymous, 2-capsular, furnished at base with 

 dry calyx ; carpels crowned with more or less persisting column 

 of central style, separating, dorsally and longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Seeds rugose-striate, base furnished with thick aril ; embryo arcuate 

 peripheral encircling a subcarneous albumen ; radicle inferior. — 

 Erect, much ramified undershrubs ; branches close, slender ; leaves 

 alternate, simple, narrow : stipules very small, glanduliform ; flowers 

 solitary, with very short pedicels, in axils of upper leaves of branch, 

 or of 2-stipulate bracts {Australia, Tasmania). See p. 43. 



