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polygamous flowers, disposed in long racemes of non-ramified cymes, 

 have an imbricated calyx, and four smali imbri- 

 cated petals, stamens without scales, drupes with Bn 

 rugose stones. They inhabit tropical Africa and 

 Asia. Eurycoma, consisting of Malaysian trees, 

 whose polygamous flowers, disposed in large ra- 

 mified cymes, have no disk, and whose corolla is 

 involute in the male flower, smaller and valvate in- 

 duplicate in the female or hermaphrodite flower, 

 the styles being united among themselves to a 

 variable distance, while they are free in Brucea. The fruit is nearly 

 that of Quassia. 



Picrella (figs. 474-477), a Mexican plant, whose bitterness is most 



Fig. 473. 

 Male flower (f). 



Fig. 474. 

 Floriferous branch. 



Fig. 475. 

 Flower (f ). 



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