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finally, more or less high 1-5-cleft and circumscissile. Corolla 

 gamopetalous truncate-conical, in bud more or less plicate-corrugate, 

 valvate ; orifice unequally denticulate. Capsule shortly stipitate, 

 glabrous, ligneous, subglobose, or 4, 5-sulcate, finally 4, 5-valved ; 

 valves equally or unequally finally revolute. Seeds oo, exterior rather 

 fleshy albuminous ; embryo .... ? — Glabrous trees ; leaves at apex of 

 twigs alternate petiolate simple coriaceous entire penninerved; 

 flowers 1 in cymiferous racemes subumbellate axillary ? reflexed (New 

 Caledonia 2 ). 



38. Aristotelia Lher. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous, receptacle cupuliform, inwardly glandular. Sepals 4, 5, 

 inserted at margin, valvate. Petals 4, 5, inserted with calyx, entire 

 dentate or 3-lobed ; prsefloration imbricated. Stamens perigynous 

 either 10 by pairs oppositipetalous or 15- oo, others alternate with 

 preceding; filaments free sometimes inserted between 2 alternate cre- 

 nate rings of disk ; anthers subbasifixed or introrse, dehiscing at apex 

 in short clefts, sometimes confluent. Grermen inserted at bottom of 

 receptacle (partly inferior) ; cells 4-5, complete or incomplete ; ovules 

 in each cell 2 ascending, anatropous or hemitropous ; 4 microp} 7 le 

 extrorse -inferior ; style subentire 2—5 branched, apex not dilated 

 stigmatiferous. Fruit baccate, furnished with base of receptacle and 

 calyx ; cells 2-5, 1, 2-spermous. Seeds ovoid fornicate ; testa 

 crustaceous, exterior pulpous sometimes at chalaza produced in 

 corneous aril ; albumen fleshy ; embryo* straight, cotyledons flat or 

 undulate; stipules usually small, deciduous; flowers 6 in cymose 

 racemes, axillary to leaves or bracts (New Zealand, Tasmania, Chili'). 



1 "Albis, speciosis." 5 Sometimes green. 



2 Spec. 2. Walp., Ann., vii. 454. 6 Small, sometimes virescent. 



3 Stirp., ii. 31, t. 16. — GLt.rtn., Fmct., iii. ? Spec. 4, quar. 2 Novo-Zeland. Labtll., PI., 

 160, t. 211— Lauk., Ill, t. 399. — DC, Prodi:, Nouv-Holl, ii., 1. 155 (Elaocarpus).— R. & Pav., 

 ii. 56.— Endl., Gen., n. 5432.— H. Bn., in Payer Prodr., t. 12. — Hook., Icon., t. 601 (Friesia). — 

 Fam. Nat., 278.— B. H., Gen., 239, 987, n. 37. Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 48 {Friesia).— C. 

 — BoCQ., in Adansonia, vii. 55. — Friesia, DC, Gat, Fl. Chil., i. 335.— Bexth , Fl. Austral., 

 Prodr., i. 520.— Endl., Gen., n. 5387. — Beau- i. 279.— Hook, f., Handb. N.-Zeal.FL, 33; Fl. 

 maria, Endl., loc. cit. Tasm., \„ 52. — Phil., in Linncea, xxxiii., 31. — 



4 Coats 2-nlicute. Walp., Ann., vii. 454. 



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