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?orm ; anthers baslfixed, 2-locularj introrsely 2-rimosc to margins. 

 Germen semi-inferior ; style elongate, apex capitate shortly lobed. 

 Ovules in cells oo , elongate, anatropous, descending. Fruit . . . ? — 

 A tree ; branches slender ; leaves alternate entire penninerved epunc- 

 tate and other characters of Najpoleona; flowers axillary solitary 

 shortly stipitate ; bracteoles 2, caducous. {North Brazil^ Guiana.) 

 —See p. 333. 



VI. PUNICE^. 



64. Punica T. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle obcouical or 

 turbinate, enclosing germen adnate within and produced higher and 

 widened fleshy (coloured). Sepals 5-7, continuous with margin of 

 receptacle, thick, valvate, persistent. Petals 5-7, inserted in hollows 

 of sepals, obovate-lanceolate, imbricate corrugate, early deciduous. 

 Stamens oo , inserted within on receptacle, co -seriate ; filaments 

 slender incurved ; anthers small introrse, 2-rimose, versatile. Germen 

 inferior, oo -locular ; style flexuose, dilated at conical base, apex 

 capitate stigmatose. Cells 2-seriately superposed; placenta of (often 

 5) upper alternipetalous parietal ; of lower (often 3-5) axile. Ovules 

 in each placenta oo , anatropous, oo -seriate. Fruit corticate thickly 

 coriaceous, crowned with calyx ; cells oo , irregularly superposed ; 

 septa unequal membranous. Seeds oo , unequally compressed ; ex- 

 terior coat pulpy ; interior woody ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo broadly foliaceous, auriculate at base, spirally convolute ; 

 radicle short subcentral. — A branched shrub, often spinescent; leaves 

 opposite, alternate or subfasciculate, obovate-oblong obtuse entire ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary or few cymose ; pedicels short or 0. 

 {North Africa (?), Levant (?).)— See p. 333. 



