TILIACEÆ. 179 
pous ovules inserted towards the internal angle,’ surmounted by a 
subulate style, with simple .stigmatiferous extremity. The fruit is 
an almost globular or elongated’ drupe with a hard rugose stone 
Antholoma montana. 

Fie. 203. 
Flower. 
Fra. 204, 
Longitudinal section of flower. 


oy 
res 

Fie. 205. Fie. 206. Fie. 207. 
Flower, without the perianth (2). Stamen (4). Gynæceum (5). 
containing a single seed, whose fleshy albumen surrounds an embryo 
with flat cotyledons, tolerably large, and more or less undulate. 
In the other species of Ææocarpus, the receptacle becomes very 
short, thick and surbased ; so that the insertion of the androceum is 

1 They have a double coat. carene islands, which we have only seen when 
2 It seems that it ought to be very long and young, and whose flower moreover is quite like 
fusiform in Cerea (Dup.-TH., mss.), of the Mas- that of the other species of Eleocarpus. 
N 2 
