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finally, more or less high 1-5-cleft and cireumscissile. Corolla 
gamopetalous truncate-conical, in bud more or less plicate-corrugate, 
valvate ; orifice unequally denticulate. Capsule shortly stipitate, 
glabrous, ligneous, subglobose, or 4, 5-sulcate, finally 4, 5-valved ; 
valves equally or unequally finally revolute. Seeds o, exterior rather 
fleshy albuminous ; embryo. .P—Glabrous trees ; leaves at apex of 
twigs alternate petiolate simple coriaceous entire penninerved ; 
flowers' in cymiferous racemes subumbellate axillary ? reflexed (Vew 
Caledonia’). 
38. Aristotelia Lurr— Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 
gamous, receptacle cupuliform, inwardly glandular. Sepals 4, 5, 
inserted at margin, valvate. Petals 4, 5, inserted with calyx, entire 
dentate or 3-lobed; præfloration imbricated. Stamens perigynous 
either 10 by pairs oppositipetalous or 15—, others alternate with 
preceding; filaments free sometimes inserted between 2 alternate cre- 
nate rings of disk ; anthers subbasifixed or introrse, dehiscing at’ apex 
in short elefts, sometimes confluent. Germen inserted at bottom of 
receptacle (partly inferior) ; cells 4-5, complete or incomplete ; ovules 
in each cell 2 ascending, anatropous or hemitropous ;* micropyle 
extrorse inferior; style subentire 2-5 branched, apex not dilated 
stigmatiferous. Fruit baccate, furnished with base of receptacle and 
calyx; cells 2-5, 1, 2-spermous. Seeds ovoid fornicate; testa 
crustaceous, exterior pulpous sometimes at chalaza produced in 
corneous aril ; albumen fleshy ; embryo’ straight, cotyledons flat or 
undulate; stipules usually small, deciduous; flowers’ in cymose 
racemes, axillary to leaves or bracts (Wew Zealand, Tasmania, Chili’). 

1 «Albis, speciosis.” 
2 Spec. 2. Waup., Ann., vii. 454. 
3 Stirp., ii. 31, t. 16.—GæÆRTN., Fruct., iii. 
160, t. 211.—Lamx., ZI, t. 399.—D°C., Prodr., 
ii. 56.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5432.—H. Bn., in Payer 
Fam. Nat., 278.—B. H., Gen., 239, 987, n. 37. 
—Bocg., in Adansonia, vii. 55.—Friesia, DC., 
Prodr., i, 520.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5387,—Beau- 
maria, ENDT., loc. cit. 
4 Coats 2-plicate. 
VOL. IV. 
5 Sometimes green. 
6 Small, sometimes virescent, 
7 Spec. 4, quar. 2 Novo-Zeland. LaBrer., Pl., 
Nouv-Holl., ii., t. 155 (Elæocarpus).—R. & Pav., 
Prodr., t. 12.—Hoox., Icon., t. 601 (Friesia).— 
Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 48 (Friesia).—C. 
Gay, Fl. Chil., i, 335.—Bentu., Fl. Austral., 
i. 279.—Hoox. r., Handb. N.-Zeal. Fl., 33; Fl. 
Tasm., i,, 52.—PHIt., in Linnea, xxxiii., 31.— 
WALP., Ann., vii. 454. 
