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3-coccous ; seeds descendent arillate at micropyle ; albumen copious ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo scarcely or not at all wider tban long 

 cylindiical radicle, semi-terete or slightly complanate. — Shi-ubs or 

 undorshi-ubs often viscous ; leaves alternate narrow entire coria- 

 ceous oxstipulate, articulate at base ; flowers axillary solitary or 

 scantily cymose. {Australia}) 



30. Alphandia H. Bn.- — Flowers monoecious (nearly of C'odheiim); 

 calyx gamophyllous, variously 5-dentate, valvate. Petals 5, imbri- 

 cate. Glands of disk 5, alternipetalous membranous, free or connate 

 iu short ring. Stamens co (of Codicrum) ; filaments shortly geniculate- 

 rocurved ; anthers small extrorse J cells discrete above but aduate 

 to the connective below. Female calyx gamophyllous, valvate, 5- 

 dentate or unequally torn. Petals 5, larger rather thick imbricated, 

 finally reciu'ved. Hypogyuous glands of disk 5, sometimes very 

 small. Germeu of Cudiaum; style afterwards 3-fid, branches 2-fid. 

 Capsule elastically 3-coccous, cocci at back vertically -i-carinate-cos- 

 tate ; seeds terete,'^ couoid-arillate at apex ; cotyledons of copiously 

 albuminous embryo elliptical foliaceous much wider than terete 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs scantily furfuraceous or luteo-resinous 

 punctuate ; leaves alternate petiolate oxstipulate entire penninerved 

 reticidatc ; flowers in terminal racemes or axillary to upper leaf ; the 

 lower flowers of the racemes female, others male ; bracts of inflo- 

 rescence 1 -flowered or cymose-plimflorous.* {Ncio Caledonia.^) 



31 ? Cocconerion H. Bn.*' — Flowers dioecious ; male '? . . . Female 

 calyx 5-merous ; sepals oblong, coriaceous, valvate. Petals and 

 disk 0. Gormen sessile, 2- or ofteuer 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior protected by obturator ; style afterwards 

 2-3-branched ; branches 2 or 3 stigmatiferous, 2-fid at apex. Capsule 

 furnished at base with calyx, 2-3-coccous; seeds glabrous j micro- 

 pyle arillate ; cotyledons of copious oleose-albuminous embryo many 

 times wider than radicle. — Trees or shi'ubs branches uodose ; leaves 

 verticillate(6-10-nate) shortly petiolate or subsessile, elongate-lanceo- 



• Spec, ad 12. Labill. PI. N'otw.-E'oll. ii. ' Nigrescent-spotted. 



72, t. 222 {Croton). — DC. Si/at. Veg. i. 444; ^ A genus, having much affinity with 0)rfitr«w, 



Prodr. i. 71 {Ilemistemma). — .SoND. in Liniicea, sect. Stcigiiia, differs particularly in a.spcct and 



x.Kviii. 504. — Hook. f. 7'V. Twim. i. 388. — Bentii. by gamophyllous valvate calyx not imbricate. 

 Fl. Anatrttl. vi. 63.— F. Muell. in Truiis. Phil. » Spec. 2. II. B.\-. toe. cit. 86. 



Soc. Vict, i. 16. — H. li.N. in Adaiisonia, vi. 304. ' In Adaiisonia, xi. 87. 



* In Adansonia^ xi. 85. 



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