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globose or ovoid-globose, the pericarp usually Lathery and bir little 

 (succulent in M. superba). 



ulent, 



Andrcecium cylindric. 



Anthers about 10, quite connate; leaves 5 to 6-5 in. long . . 18. 21 fulrm 



Anthers about 9, with free apices; haves 10 to 12 in. hmg 



Anthers about 18, with free 



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• +\j. ~u rirrvui 



Andrcecium ovoid, obtuse; flowers large; stamens J'> 21. 3f 



Andraioium depressed-globose, shortly stalked 22. .!/. 



Andrcecium depressed-globose, sessile. 



Leaves glabrous. 



Male flowers large ('13 in. in diam.) ; fiuit 15 to 1 :5 in. 

 long; arillus entire 23. M h 





riii 



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4 * 



Male flowers under 1 in. in diam.; fruit 1'5 in. long; 



arillus laciniate at the apex . . . 







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21. $f. 



Male flowers '1 in. in diam.; fruit 2*5 to 3 in. long; 



, arillus slightly laciniate at the apt* 25. Jf, 



Leaves rusty-tomentose, espec illy beneath. 



Leaves glabrescent when old; 6 to 10 in. long male panicles 



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2*5 to 4 in. long 



Leaves persistently tomentose ; more than 10 in. long. 



Male panicles 6 to 9 in. long, th r brandies long 

 aud slender. 



<J flowers very small ('0'> in. long), globular, 



2G. M. fom e n t o u 



t. 



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glabrous, crowded ; their pedicels short .... 27. M. mbiy<n 

 S flowers '1 in. long; their pedicels two or three 

 times as long * • 2 .1/ floceubia. 



Male panicles 4 to 12 in. long ; their branches shoi 

 very stout. 



<? flowers '1 in. long, on very short tomentoee 

 pedicels, or sub-sessile ; perianth ot ? flower 

 sub- accrescent and persistent at base of fruit. . 2:». M Wat, 



Monoecious : the ? panicles much longer than the male 30. 21. c<m*rwi<b 





Sect. IIL— Gymnacranthera (A. DC.) Panicles as in Pyrri w, but short ; perianth 

 bracteolate, 3-toothed; andrcecium shortly cylindric, or sub- quadrangular and truncal 



pices 



anthers connate to the column by their connectives only, their margins and 

 quite free ; stigma sessile, 2-lobed ; leaves and fruit small. 



Flowers globular in bud 

 Flowers ovoid in bud. 



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31. M Griffith 



Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, with 6 to 10 pairs of very indistinct 

 nerves; fruit ovoid 



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32. 21. Fan/ f< riant, 



Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, with 13 to 17 pairs of nerves; fruit 

 narrowly obovoid or ellipsoid 



Leaves 6 to 12 in. long, with 11 to 13 pairs of distinct nerves; 

 fruit globose 



3 ; j. 21. I rftetii. 



J. J/ ( maricn. 



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