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more or less adherent ; apex more or less swollen and stigmatiferous. 

 Carpels separated or loosened at maturity, straight ( Orthocarpcea) or 

 spirally contorted (Spirocarpcea) inwardly dehiscent. Seeds go , ana- 

 tropous, verruculose or rather smooth ; albumen scanty ; embryo 

 rather thick, with foliaceous cotyledons, involute convolute around 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs ; hairs stellate or ramified ; leaves entire 

 or serrate stipulate, flowers axillary solitary or in small cymes {All 

 the warm regions of the Globe). See p. 66. 



7. Kleinhovia L. — Sepals 5 valvate deciduous. Petals contorted 

 equal or slightly unequal, inserted with calyx. Column elongated, 

 slightly dilated at apex, bearing on both sides go anthers, shortly 

 stipitate extrorse 2-celled, and with 5 short antherless teeth alternate 

 to anthers. Gynaeceum placed at summit of column ; ovary 5-celled 

 style thin stigmatiferous at apex, 5-fid. Ovules in each cell 4— ao 

 2-seriate, ascending. Capsule membranous-inflated vesiculate, tur 

 binate-5-lobed, loculicidal 5-valved ; seeds in each cell solitary or few 

 globose tuberculate ; embryo corrugate ; cotyledons subconvolute 

 albumen small or 0. — A tree ; leaves alternate entire, 3-7-nerved 

 petiolate stipulate ; flowers in terminal, much ramified cymiferous 

 racemes ; bracts very small (Trop. Asia). See p. 68. 



8. Pterospermum Schreb. — Sepals 5, free or tubular connate in 

 calyx at base, valvate, deciduous. Petals contorted, inserted with calyx, 

 deciduous. Column more or less elongated, sometimes short, slightly 

 dilated at apex, bearing 5 elongated staminodes, and fertile stamens 

 often 10—15 in pairs or 3 twisted together, alternately inserted ; fila- 

 ments linear. Anthers linear erect ; connective apiculate beyond 

 parallel cells. Ovary inserted at summit of column 3-celled ; 

 style entire clavate stigmatiferous at apex 5-sulcate. Ovules in 

 each cell 4-qo , ascending ; micropyle exterior, inferior. Capsule 

 ligneous or more rarely coriaceous, ovoidal oblong subcylindrical or 

 5-gonal, loculicidal 5-valved ; seeds winged above; embryo corrugate ; 

 cotyledons folded ; radicle inferior, rather long ; albumen small or 

 0. — Trees, or shrubs, lepidote or stellate-tomentose ; leaves alternate 

 (often oblique) 3-7-nerved ; flowers axillary solitary or few ; bracts 

 3 or oo (Sczegleeivia) stipuliform, entire, or lacinate, inserted under the 

 flowers {Trop. Asia). See p. 68. 



