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7? Microsemma Labill. 1 — Flowers polygamous-dioecious ; re- 

 ceptacle rather convex. Sepals 5 or more rarely 6, thick, dorsally 

 subcostate, much imbricated, persistent ; each at base furnished in- 

 wardly with a small gland (coloured) fornicate- 2-fid. Stamens co ; 

 filaments free or slightly connate at base, in bud corrugate ; anthers 

 slightly introrse ; connective rather thick ; cells linear curvate, lon- 

 gitudinally rimose. Grermen (in male flower rudimentary effete, 2 

 much setose), 8-12-locular ; 3 style short, apex stigmatiferous 5, 6-fid. 

 Ovule in each cell solitary (?), descending from summit of internal 

 angle ; micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule surrounded by base of 

 persistent calyx and staminal filaments, 8-12-locular, with locu- 

 licidal dehiscence; columella 0. Seeds in cells solitary descending; 4 

 testa hard; ventral raphe and chalaza 5 prominent below, arillate 

 fleshy; albumen thin fleshy; cotyledons of shorter embryo 6 elliptical- 

 ovate ; radicle conical superior. — Erect branching shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate oblong coriaceous ; 7 petiole articulate at base ; flowers um- 

 bellate (?) lateral or subterminal 8 (N. Caledonia 9 ). 



II. TEBNSTKCEMIE^]. 



8. Ternstrcemia L. f. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 

 polygamous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals 5, sometimes ciliate- 

 glandular, much imbricated. Petals same in number opposite or 

 more or less alternate, usually conical at base, imbricated. Stamens 

 co ; filaments often adnate to base of corolla, otherwise free ; anthers 

 basifixed apiculate ; cells adnate, introrse or lateral rimose. Germen 

 free ; cells 2 or more rarely 3, 4, complete ; style conical, elongated 

 or very short, apex stigmatiferous, simple or more or less widely 

 2-4-lobed. Ovules in each cell 2 or more rarely 3-8, inserted on 

 wide placentas at summit of internal angle of cells descendent, ana- 

 tropous ; raphe dorsal, base more or less arched ; micropyle introrse 



1 Sert. Austro-caled., 58, t. 57. — Endl., Gen., 6 Immature albumen scarcely extending to 

 n. 5415.— B. H., Gen., 187, n. 25. middle. 



2 Cells sometimes distinct. 7 Ribs, beneath, and twigs pubescent. 



• perhaps equal in number to stigma cells, 8 Anomalous to be Ued from the 

 but 2-locel late by false dissepiment. onler Tr & p L & (Ln ^ & _ Nat ^ 4> xvi;< 



* Fumcle rather long oblique. 539) Gyna^ceum hitherto imperfectly known. 

 ° Albumen placed at summit of cupule of ' . 



obconical chalaza below drawn out in an incurved S P ec - L M - salicifolia Labill., loc. cit. 



filament with continuous raphe. 



