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ments, folded and contorted in the bud (fig. 282), become free, and 
exserted, each supporting’ a two-celled, introrse anther, dehiscing 
by two longitudinal clefts. 
of an ovary generally quad- 
rilocular,? surmounted by 
four styles, long and thin, 
the tapering extremity being 
stigmatiferous. In the in- 
ternal angle of each cell a 
descendent incompletely ana- 
tropal ovule is inserted,’ with 
the micropyle directed up- 
wards and outwards. The 
fruit is a drupe, the more or 
less fleshy mesocarp (fig. 285) 
enveloping some stones, four 
in number, generally thick 
and solid,‘ smooth or rugose 

The gynæceum is free, superior, formed 
Curyocar (Saouari) glabrum. 

Fie. 282. Fra. 285. 
Fruit, 
Bud, perianth 
taken away. 
without, sometimes covered with prickles or sharp, rigid hairs, pene- 
trating the softer layer which surround them, and round which is 
often found a layer of a resinous or buty- 
rous substance. Each stone contains a 
seed, enclosing under its thin and glabrous 
coats a large fleshy, oily, macropodal em- 
bryo, almost the whole mass of which is 
constituted by an enormous, swollen ra- 
dicle with superior apex, while the tigella 
folded on the radicle and surmounted by 
two small incumbent cotyledons only oc- 
cupies a very minute portion of the in- 
ternal and inferior angle of the seed. 
Seven or eight species’ of Caryocar are 
Caryocar butyrosum (Pekea). 

Fra. 286. 
Seed. 
Fra. 287. 
Embryo. 

1 The most interior are said to be sometimes 
short and antherless. : 
2 There are sometimes three, five, or six 
cells. 
3 Tt is often attached to the placenta at the 
middle of the height of its internal angle, and 
often even lower, its hilum being very near the 
region of the chalaza, so that it resembles the 
almost orthotropal arrangement of that of An- 
thodiscus, 
4 When there are several they are unsymme- 
trical, their internal angle being cut straight, or 
slightly concave, and representing a kind of 
linear cicatrice, by which it is applied against the 
central columella, 
5 Cav., Icon., 37, t. 361, 362.—Mvr., ap. 
Cav., loc. cit., 38.—CAMBESS., in A. S. H. Fl. 
Bras, Mer., i.522, 67 bis. — Hoox., in Bot. 
Mag., t. 2727, 2728.—Watp., Rep., i. 419; v. 
358; Ann., ii. 207. 
