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&i Ovary — Free, sessile, 1-celled. " Densely appressed, tawny, 

 hispid," says Kurz. 



Styles — Three, from the apex of the ovary ; divergent, incrassate. 



Stigma — Sub-clavate, shortly two-lobed or retuse. 



Ovules — Inserted at the apex of the cell ; pendulous from a basal 

 funicle. 



MALE FLOWERS— Usually smaller than the hermaphrodite; 

 often on a separate tree. Calyx and corolla as in the hermaphrodite 

 flower. Petals u about a line long ; oblong-lanceolate" (Kurz). 



Filaments— Five, of the length of the petals. 



Anthers — Much larger than in the hermaphrodites. 



Pistil — Absent, or small, and abortive, and in the form of a semi- 

 globular hairy glandular body (Roxburgh). 



FRUIT — A drupe, 1 inch long and about as broad, often less ; ovoid, 

 obliquely ovoid or cordate-ovate, with a slight obtuse notch on either 

 side under the apex ; unequally compressed ; slightly convex in some 

 parts, and quite plain in others ; seated at the summit of, or more or 

 less immersed in a fleshy receptacle formed of the thickened disk and 

 accrescent calyx-base termed the Hypocarp. 



Cup — Fleshy, orange-red, smooth, about the size of the nut, some- 

 times a little larger. 



Pericarp — Smooth, shining black, thick ; containing between the 

 outer and inner laminae roundish or oblong cells full of corrosive 

 resinous juice. This juice is white when the fruit is young, darkening 

 on exposure to the air. In the mature fruit it is brownish or perfectly 

 black. The inner lamiba is hard and rugose ; the outer smooth, 

 leathery and less hard. 



SEED — Pendulous, "with a swollen or umbilicate funicle." (Lub- 

 bock.) 



Testa— Coriaceous ; inner coat somewhat fleshy. 



Embryo — Thick, milk-white. Plumule rt ovate-leaved, veined, con- 

 duplicate, very thin." (Gaertner). 



Cotyledons — Fleshy, thick, white, irregularly plano-convex. 



Albumen — Absent. 



Radicle— Superior, minute, concealed within the apex of the coty- 

 ledons ; " always directed to the hilum." (Lindley's Vegetable 

 Kingdom, p. 465, 1847.) 



