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Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves alternate petiolate; stipules 
minute, tuberculiform or glanduliform, sometimes developed into 
indurated recurved prickles ; flowers in compound much ramified 
racemes terminal or axillary; bracts 1-flowered ; bractlets 2, lateral 
(Zropical America). See p. 37. 
14. Adenogramma Rericus.—F lowers hermaphrodite, apetalous ; 
sepals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5; filaments free or connate at 
base in short cupule; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Ovary oblique, 
conical, l-celled; style slender, apex capitellate stigmatiferous ; 
ovule 1, campylotropous, inserted at the summit of a slender sub- 
basilar erect funicle. Fruit dry, obliquely conical ; pericarp smooth 
or granulate, usually coriaceous, blackish, indehiscent or longi- 
tudinally dehiscent. Seed straight or curved; testa membranous ; 
embryo arched or uncinate, encircling a fleshy albumen.—Dif- 
fuse herbs; branches slender sub-2-chotomous ; leaves in false 
verticils simple, usually narrow; stipules small or very small ; 
flowers small in umbelliferous axillary and terminal cymes (South 
Africa). See p. 38. 

V.? THELYGONEZÆ. 
15. Thelygonum L.—Flowers monecious. Male calyx 2-phyllous, 
valvate; leaves finally revolute. Stamens ©, inserted on short 
receptacle; filaments capillary, finally cernuous; anthers linear, 
2-celled, introrse, 2-rimose, versatile. Female calyx at the apex 
finally eccentric, tubular; apex 3-dentate ; base laterally increased 
and gibbous. Ovary eccentric, subglobose; ovule 1, subbasilar, 
campylotropous; style lateral, subbasilar (gynobasic), erect in tube 
of perianth, apex clavate, stigmatiferous. Fruit drupaceous ; meso- 
carp thin; seeds suberect, hippocrepiform; embryo uncinate, 
encircled within and without by a fleshy albumen ; radicle cylindro- 
conical, inferior; cotyledons narrow, incumbent—An annual sub- 
succulent herb ; leaves alternate ; inferior ones opposite, simple and 
penninerved; petiole dilated at the base into a stipuliform in- 
cised sheath ; flowers in axillary glomerules; males ebracteate 1-0 ; 
females often 3-nates, or ©, pluribracteolate (J/editerranean region). 
See p. 39. 
