Olaz.} OLACINES, 323 
fertile stamens 3—5, opposite edges of petals, staminodes 5-6 re a 
their centres ; flowers 2-chlamydeou 
Ovary re celled throughout; ovule solitary ; fertile stamens isomerous 
with and opposite to petals or periant Si 
Flowers 2-chlamydeous ; es stamens 5 opposite the = 
staminodes 5; ovule pendulo 
abs Gaonochhautyastaet- ; * font stamens opposite Se A 
obes 
Bciniinbites 0; ovule pendulous ; bracts conspicuous 
Staminodes 5; ovule erect; bracts small ............-..++ ansjera. 
*Flowers 1-sexual; ovary 1-celled, ovules 2 pendulous :—[p. 322 
Fertile stamens opposite the petals ; stigma sessile; flowers cymose 
Fertile stamens alternate with the petals ; styles short:— 
Flowers capitate ; stigma dilated, ten Feat ekeee a Miquelia. 
Flowers racemose ; stigma capitate Natsiatum. 
169. Olax Linn. 
rees or shrubs, often climbing, sometimes armed; leaves 
alternate, simple, (etisled: ; stipules 0, Flowers in axillary racemes 
or panicles, minutely bracteate. Calya minute, cupular, truncate 
or obscurely toothed, accrescent. Petals golly valvate, 
somewhat connate, usually 6 connate in 3 pairs, or 5 with 
connate and 1 free, rarely 5 or 3 all ite Stamens usually 3 
fertile, opposite and attached to edges of petals, alternate with 
Pairs of usually 6 2-fid staminodes that are opposite and attached 
to centre of petals, sometimes 4 or 5 fertile, and then oceasion- 
ally one or twoo opposite centre of petals, s staminodes sometimes 
only 5; anthers oblong 2-celled ; dehiscence longitudinal. Ovary 
free, its base usually surrounded by a shallow hypogynous disk, 
imperfectly 3-locular (three partial dissepiments below, always 
Llocular above) ; style simple, terminal, stigma 8- lobed ; ovules 3, 
ear, pendulous from the tip of a central placenta. Fruit a 
small drupe, more or less covered by the acerescent fleshy calyx ; 
Stone crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed inverted; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo minute, apical. 
tShrubs, usually scandent, = wood y twigs; ; vata in racemes :—[p. 324] 
}Branche es terete : 5 Ta shee 
Prickly ; bracts otra ‘diaiiie ‘Alone pat 
Unarmed ; bracts large, imbricate, oR PUNT? cadimbr icata, 
scandens. 
