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XIII? CORIARIEZÆ. 
125. Coriaria Nissou.—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or poly- 
gamous ; receptacle depressed conical. Sepals 5, imbricated per- 
sistent. Petals 5, alternate, usually shorter than sepals, interior 
carinate, fleshy, accrescent after anthesis. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; 
filaments usually free, or sometimes 5 (exterior) adnate to keel of 
petals, hypogynous or subhypogynous; anthers (effete in female 
flower) introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, alternipetalous, or more 
rarely 6-10 free, inserted at summit of receptacle. Germen free 
(effete in male flower) ; styles same in number ; free, long, flexuous, 
everywhere stigmatiferous; ovules solitary in cells descending ; 
micropyle introrse superior. Fruit of 5-10 cocci, included in fleshy 
petals, finally compressed to solute receptacle, scarcely drupaceous, 
finally dry ; seeds descendent; testa membranous ; albumen ? thin 
membranous, sometimes hard; embryo ovate compressed fleshy ; 
cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short superior.—Unarmed shrubs, 
sometimes sarmentose ; branches angular; buds squamose ; leaves 
opposite or 3-nate, entire, 1—5-nerved, exstipulate ; flowers axillary, 
solitary or in racemes sometimes densely flowered ; pedicels brac- 
teate, or sometimes folio-stipitate (Zed. Rey. Temp. Asia, South-West. 
America, and N. Zealand). See p. 432. 
XIV. SURIANEÆX. 
126. Surianea PLtum.—F lowers hermaphrodite; receptacle sub- 
plane at apex. Sepals 5, imbricated, persistent. Petalssame in number 
alternate, very short unguiculate, imbricated or contorted. Stamens 
19, 2-seriate ; filaments free; anthers short sub-2-dymous, introrsely 
rimose (in shorter stamens), oppositipetalous, sometimes wanting. 
Carpels 5 opposite petals, free ; germen shortly stipitate, | -locular ; 
style inserted at base of internal angle, slightly thickened, stigma- 
tiferous at apex; ovules in cells 2, collateral, descending, very in- 
completely anatropous; raphe very short introrse inferior; mi- 
cropyle extrorse superior. Fruit-carpels 5 (or fewer) furnished with 
persistent styles and calyx, drupaceous ; mesocarp thin rather fleshy ; 
putamen l-locular; seed ascendent rather compressed, campylo- 
tropous; embryo exalbuminous uncinate; cotyledons rather flat, 
