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their edges. All or part of them are sometimes wanting. The an- 

 droceum is formed of an indefinite number of hypogynous stamens, 

 with free filaments and two-celled anthers, extrorse, or partly introrse, 

 dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. The gynseceum is composed 

 of a free ovary, and surmounted by a simple, entire style with stig- 

 matiferous scarcely dilated apex. The ovary contains three oppositi- 

 petalous cells, or from four to six cells, in the internal angle of which 

 a large descending bilobed placenta is seen loaded with anatropous 

 ovules. The fruit is a polyspermous berry, accompanied at the base 

 by the persistent calyx ; and the seeds lodged in a fleshy pulp, con- 

 tain under their resistant coats a fleshy albumen surrounding a 

 straight embryo, with thick cotyledons a little larger than the radicle. 

 Prockia also consists of shrubs of tropical America, of which five or 

 six species 1 have been described. The leaves are alternate, often 

 dentate like a saw, multinerved at the base, accompanied by two 

 lateral stipules. The flowers are terminal, disposed in simple racemes, 

 or in racemose cymes. 



After Prockia we range Hasseltia, which has very similar flowers 

 in four or five parts, and an ovary with two or three cells, each 

 having in its internal angle a placenta covered outwardly with nu- 

 merous ovules ; Plagiopteron having biovulate ovary cells and a 

 fruit in the shape of a reversed triangular pyramid, surmounted by 

 three horizontal rings ; and Sohusia, apetalous diclinous flowers, 

 with an indefinite number of stamens, sterile in the female flower. 



IV. ELiEOCAKPUS SEEIES. 



The flowers of EIcBocarpus 2, are hermaphrodite, or more rarely 

 unisexual, pentamerous or less frequently tetramerous. If we study 



ser. 4, viii. 268.— B. H., Gen., 237, 986, n. 29. 

 — Bocq., in Adansonia, vii. 41. — Trilix L., 

 Mantiss., ii. n. 1313. — Endi., Gen., n. 5381. — 

 Jacqiunia MtJT., mss. (ex Endl., nee alior.) — 

 Tinea Spbeng., -ZV. Entd., ii. 165. — Lamk., III., 

 t. 465, figs. 1-3. — Kelletia Seem., Voy. Her., 

 Bot., 85, 254. 



1 " Spec. 2 v. 3, nisi omn. P. cruris var." (B. 

 H., Gen., 238). Vaki, Synth., iii. 69, t. 64.— 

 Hook., Icon., t. 94. — Benn., PI. Jav. Ear., 



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191. — Geiseb., Veg. d. Kar. Ins., 17 (Banara) ; 

 Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 21 {Trilix).— Kabst., Fl 

 Columb., 79, t. 111. — Tb. & Pi., in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 355. — Waip., Ann., vii. 

 451. 



2 L., Gen., n. 663. — J., Gen., 258.— Gjebtn., 

 Fruct.,\. 202, t. 43.— Lamk., Diet., ii. 603; 

 Suppl., ii. 703; III., t. 459.— DC, Prodr., i. 

 519.— Tuep., in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., t. 148. — 

 Endl, Gen., n. 5384. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, 



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