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colls 1 -ovulate; style cyliutli-ical or long conical; branches 8, 

 usually short recurved, 2-lobecl at apex ; inwardly sulcate and 

 papillose-stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous; cocci 2-valved, 1- 

 spermous ; seed subterete or ancipiti-compressed, arillate at microjiyle ; 

 cotyledons of copiously albuminous embryo foliaceous, sometimes 

 lateral. — Trees ; juice milky ; leaves alternate penninei-ved coria- 

 oeoiis ; stipules caducous ; flowers in short terminal or ofteuer 

 axillary ramified cymiferous racemes ; each cyme sub-capitiiliform, 

 female flower central, finally laterally dejected involucellato tei'minal. 

 Bracts of involucel generally 4, furnished at base with lateral sessile 

 discoid glands, finally lateral. Male flowers in axil of each bract 

 cj'mose ; cymes 1-parous ; pedicels articulate below calyx ; bracts 

 below inflorescence all lateral ; ' each stipate from an axillary glan- 

 duliform- bud. i^West. trap. Africa, Madagascar.^') 



VI. DICHAPETALE.E. 



110. Dichapetalum Dup.-Th. — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous 5-mcroas; receptacle convex, more rarely slightly or 

 sometimes much concave ; perianth and hence androceum superior, 

 more rarely semi-inferior or all inferior. Sepals free or connate at 

 base, subequal, imbricated. Petals alternate fi-ee equal, ciiculate- 

 2-fid or 2-lobed at apex, fui'uishcd at middle within with an inflexed 

 tongue or rather prominent vertical rib, induplicate valvate or sub- 

 imbricate. Stamens 5, alternipctalous ; filaments free ; anthers in- 

 trorse ; connective rather thick ; cells longitudinally riraose. Glands 

 of hypogynous disk 5, oppositipetalous, subentire or 2-lobed, free or 

 connate. Germen free, sometimes partly or tdl inferior and adnate 

 to concave receptacle, 2-3-locular ; ovules in cell 2, collaterally 

 descendtsnt ; micropyle extrorse superior ; obturator small, sometimes 

 rather thick, or (I; style divided above into 2, 3, branches, inwardly 

 stigmatiforous at apex. Fruit dry, coriaceous or ch-upaceous ; 

 putamen 1-3-locular, indehisccnt ; exocarp more or less fleshy, 

 longitudinally cut between cells. S(>eds 1-3 ; cotyhulons of thick 

 fleshy embryo plano-convex ; radicle short superior. — Small trees or 



' Common involucre (A. Juss.), ^ Spec. 3. II. B.v. in AJaxmnia, i. 78 ; 



' Taken for fjlandu of involucre (A. .luss.). 32 ; v. .300, not. 



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