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imperfect) ; style straight or recurved or revolute, convexity silicate, 

 simple or at stigmatose apex 2-fld, girt at base with thick epigyuous 

 disk. Ovule 1 (or very rarely 2), descending ; micropyle extrorsely 

 superior. Fruit drupaceous oblong, areolate at apex ; putamen 

 terete or sulcate. Albumen of descending seed fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of inverted embryo foliaceous and equilateral to albumen. — Trees or 

 slmibs, sometimes sericeous ; leaves alternate petiolate, exstipulate, 

 entire or coarsely dentate or lobate ; flowers axillary, inserted at 

 summit of pedunculum, capitate or shortly racemose (glomerulate ?), 

 bracteate and bracteolate ; bracts sometimes involucrate ; female 

 flowers fewer, sometimes solitary. (Son tit.. North America, mount. 

 Asia and temp. Malaya.) See p. 26 9. 



10 ? Camptotheka Done. 1 — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Nyssa); calyx cupular. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, 

 inserted under epigynous disk ; cellules of anthers 4, appended to 

 conical connective ; each introrsely unequally valvicide. 2 Germon 

 (in male flower effete) inferior; ovule ...'?; style 2-fid (in male 

 flower very short, buried in disk). Fruit capitate compressed sub- 

 samaroid, truncate at apex and crowned with remains of disk ; 

 mesocarp suberose ; endocarp thin. Seed descending elongate ; testa 

 thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo (greenish) equal to albumen, cotyledons 

 thin ; radicle superior. — A tree ; leaves alternate, deciduous ; flowers 

 capitate ; capitules (glomeruliferous) in terminal raceme and pedi- 

 cellate ; bracts and bracteoles lateral involucrating cymuks. [East. 

 Tibet?) 



11? Davidia H. Bn. 4 — Flowers polygamo-diœcious ; males 

 1-androus ; stamens co , collected in minute enclosed globular capi- 

 tule, around slightly projecting base of filaments; filaments fiee 

 subulate, inserted in foveoles of receptacle ; anther cells ovate, free 

 on both sides, sublaterally rimose. Female flower in capitules 0, or 

 1, laterally inserted above middle of receptacle, oblique; receptacle 

 proper of flower subovoid sacciform, euclosing adnate germen and 

 bearing subepigynous perianth consisting of co small unequal 

 subulate folioles. Germen inferior, 6-10-locular, attenuate beyond 

 perianth ; style conical, externally rugose, at apex divided into 

 radiating lobes, sulcate and stigmatose within, equal in number to 

 cells. Ovules in complete cells solitary, inserted a little below apex, 



1 Bull. Suc. Bot. de Fr. xx. 157. : ' Spec. 1. C. acuminata Dcne. lue. cit. 



-' •' Pollen 3-gonal like that of Onagrariea." 4 Adamouia, x. 114. 



