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more or less adherent; apex more or less swollen and stigmatiferous. 
Carpels separated or loosened at maturity, straight (Orthocarpea) or 
spirally contorted (Spirocarpea) inwardly dehiscent. Seeds », ana- 
tropous, verruculose or rather smooth; albumen scanty ; embryo 
rather thick, with foliaceous cotyledons, involute convolute around 
radicle.—Trees or shrubs; hairs stellate or ramified; leaves entire 
or serrate stipulate, flowers axillary solitary or in small cymes (4// 
the warm regions of the Globe). See p. 66. 
7. Kleinhovia L.—Sepals 5 valvate deciduous. Petals contorted 
equal or slightly unequal, inserted with calyx. Column elongated, 
slightly dilated at apex, bearing on both sides o anthers, shortly 
stipitate extrorse 2-celled, and with 5 short antherless teeth alternate 
to anthers. Gynæceum placed at summit of column ; ovary 5-celled ; 
style thin stigmatiferous at apex, 5-fid. Ovules in each cell 4-, 
2-seriate, ascending. Capsule membranous-inflated vesiculate, tur- 
binate-5-lobed, loculicidal 5-valved ; seeds in each cell solitary or few, 
globose tuberculate ; embryo corrugate ; cotyledons subconvolute, 
albumen small or 0.—A tree ; leaves alternate entire, 3-7-nerved, 
petiolate stipulate; flowers in terminal, much ramified cymiferous 
racemes ; bracts very small (Zrop. Asia). See p. 68. 
8. Pterospermum ScareB.—Sepals 5, free or tubular connate in 
calyx at base,valvate, deciduous. Petals contorted, inserted with calyx, 
deciduous. Column more or less elongated, sometimes short, slightly 
dilated at apex, bearing 5 elongated staminodes, and fertile stamens 
often 10—15 in pairs or 3 twisted together, alternately inserted ; fila- 
ments linear. Anthers linear erect; connective apiculate beyond 
parallel cells. Ovary inserted at summit of column 3-celled ; 
style entire clavate stigmatiferous at apex 5-sulcate. Ovules in 
each cell 4-0, ascending; micropyle exterior, inferior. Capsule 
ligneous or more rarely coriaceous, ovoidal oblong subcylindrical or 
5-gonal, loculicidal 5-valved ; seeds winged above; embryo corrugate ; 
cotyledons folded ; radicle inferior, rather long; albumen small or 
0.—Trees, or shrubs, lepidote or stellate-tomentose ; leaves alternate 
(often oblique) 3-7-nerved ; flowers axillary solitary or few; bracts 
3 or o (Sczegleewia) stipuliform, entire, or lacinate, inserted under the 
flowers (Zrop. Asia). See p. 68. 
