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entire or lobed; branches of enclosed or exserted style 2, or more 

 rarely 3-8, very various in form. Ovules in cells solitary, erect, 

 anatropous, often compressed back and front ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit drupaceous ; exocarp fleshy or finally subdry ; pyrenes 

 very various in form, often longitudinally costate at back, sometimes 

 narrow-winged ; face flat, convex or concave, sometimes enlarged with 

 spurious cellules ; columella various or 0. Seed conformed to pyrenes ; 

 albumen copious fleshy or horny, equable or more rarely ruminate ; 

 cotyledons of (oftener small) embryo narrow or rather broad ; radicle 

 inferior. — Shrubs, or more rarely small trees, undershrubs or herbs, 

 rarely climbing, sometimes epiphytal; leaves opposite or rarely 

 verticillate ; stipules interpetiolar or oftener intrapetiolar, free or 

 connate, sometimes plurisetose, rarely widely membranous; flowers 

 rarely axillar, most frequently terminal solitary, glomerulate or cymose; 

 cymes often in compound racemes or collected in a spurious capitule ; 

 bracts involucrant sometimes foliaceous or coloured. {All trop. and 

 warm regions.) — See p. 280. 



36 ? Mesoptera Hook, f.' — Flowers (nearly of Uragoga) 5-merous; 

 calyx short dentate. Corolla shortly tubular, valvate. Stamens 5, 

 inserted in throat; anthers apiculate. Disk epigynous orbicular. 

 Germen 2-celled; ovule in cells 1, ascending; funicle short; micro- 

 pyle extrorsely inferior. Style short ; ** stigma large capitately 

 10-lobed. Fruit sub-2-dymous, 2-coccous; cocci...?" Other 

 characters of Uragoga.'^ — A robust tree; leaves opposite, petiolate 

 large ovato- elliptical coriaceous, glossy above, dark-tomentose be- 

 neath; stipules broad aliform; flowers^ in dense axillary " ebracteo- 

 late " cymes. {Malacca^) 



37. Thiersia H. Bn.^ — Flowers (nearly of Uragoga) 4-merous ; 

 receptacle ovoid. Calyx short subentire or sinuate-dentate.^ Corolla 

 narrow tubular, slightly pubescent within; lobes of slightly dilated 

 limb 4, valvate. Stamens 4, inserted in throat ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers oblong subenclosed, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled ; 

 disk epigynous highly conical; branches of enclosed style 2, short 

 obtuse, stigmatose within. Ovule in cells 1 ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit . . . ? — A tree (?) ; branches ancipitous-compressed ; 

 leaves opposite oblong penninerved dentate, unequal at base ; stipules 



1 Gen. ii. 130, n. 277. — Hook.JF'/. Ind. iii. 136. ^ Spec. 1. 31. Maingayi Hook. f. loc. cit. 



2 Ofwhichperhaps only a sect, style 10-lobed? ^ Adansonia, xii. 335. 



3 Minute. * After anthesia somewhat accresceuti 



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