PHYTOLACCACEÆ. 59 
elongated, thick, divergent, internally stigmatiferous ; ovule solitary 
in each cell, ascending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle exterior 
inferior, thick. Fruit 2-dymous, 2-capsular, furnished at base with 
dry calyx; carpels crowned with more or less persisting column 
of central style, separating, dorsally and longitudinally dehiscent. 
Seeds rugose-striate, base furnished with thick aril; embryo arcuate 
peripheral encircling a subcarneous albumen; radicle inferior.— 
Erect, much ramified undershrubs; branches close, slender; leaves 
alternate, simple, narrow; stipules very small, glanduliform ; flowers 
solitary, with very short pedicels, in axils of upper leaves of branch, 
or of 2-stipulate bracts (Australia, Tasmania). See p. 43. 

