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pous ovules inserted towards the internal angle, 1 surmounted by a 

 subulate style, with simple stigmatiferous extremity. The fruit is 

 an almost globular or elongated 2 drupe with a hard rugose stone 



Fig. 203. 

 Flower. 



Antholoma montana. 



Fig. 202. 

 Bud. 



Fig. 204. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



Fig. 205. Fig. 206. 



Flower, without the perianth {\). Stamen (A). 



Fig. 207. 

 Gynseceum (^). 



containing a single seed, whose fleshy albumen surrounds an embryo 

 with flat cotyledons, tolerably large, and more or less undulate. 



In the other species of Elaocarpus, the receptacle becomes very 

 short, thick and surbased : so that the insertion of the androceum is 



1 They have a douhle coat. carene islands, which we have only seen when 



2 It seems that it ought to he very long and young, and whose flower moreover is quite like 

 fusiform in Cerea (Dup.-Th., mss.), of the Mas- that of the other species of Elceocarpus. 



N 2 



