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mostly 29-35, the filaments subulate, as long as the anthers or 
shorter, the anthers oval, nearly 1.5 mm. long, very minutely 
pubescent: drupes globose-obovoid, nearly or quite 2 cm. long, 
long, orange. 
Southern Santo Domingo.—Northeast of Azua, J. N. Rose, 
4o42 (type, in herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden), specimen with 
fruit: near Barahona, Miguel Fuertes, 1535, specimen with 
staminate flowers. 
This tree is interesting in that its leaflets resemble those of 
the Jamaican plant in outline and venation, whereas the fruits 
have the thick-walled stone (endocarp) of the Cuban plan . 
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and like its relatives, it inhabits very dry regions. 
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v, staminate flower from the side, showing Sore pedicel, enlarged. d, staminate 
flower, showy r feceptacle with some oi o the aman removed, also _ ses a 
tending bract: 
e, stamen, enlarged. 
LANATION OF PLATE 20. 
inch of Picrodendron baccatum with pistillate ee slightly reduced. 
b, pista flower, enlarged. c, two sepals, two sizes, enlarged. , pistil, enlarged. 
by the single seed, slightly ae. h, seed, looking on the nee he two seed- 
leaves hess the plumule above, metre size. 4, seed, ees at the base, the 
, the plumule natural size. 
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