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Plate 164. 



CONDALIA, Cav. 



Calyx patens, 5-fidus. Petala nulla. Ovarium liberum, 

 disco crasso arete cinctum, 1-2-loculare : styli in unum con- 

 nati. Drupa carnosa ; putamine osseo uniloculari monosper- 

 mo. — Suffrutices ramosissimi, glaberrimi, ramis spinescenti- 

 bus, floribus axillaribus. 



CoNDALiA, Cav. Anal. Cienc. Nat. 1. p. 29. t. 4, & Ic. 6. p. 16. t. 525. 

 DC. Prodr. 2. p. 28. Brongn. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 10. p. 355. t. 

 12. f. 3. Hook. Ic. PL t. 287. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 

 685. Endl. Gen. 5718. 



Calyx flat and open, with a very short turbinate tube, 

 five-cleft, rarely four-cleft, the lobes ovate, valvate in aestiva- 

 tion, carinate-one-nerved on the inside. Disk thick and 

 fleshy, flat, adnate to and filling the tube of the calyx, sur- 

 rounding the ovary, but free from it or nearly so. Petals 

 none. Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted into the edge of the 

 disk alternate with the lobes of the calyx, shorter than they, 

 deciduous : filaments subulate-filiform : anthers introrse, 

 fixed by the middle, two-celled, the oblong cells opening 

 longitudinally. Ovary free, nearly immersed in the disk, 

 two-celled with a solitary erect ovule in each cell, or in C. 

 obovata usually one-celled and one-ovuled : styles united 

 into one: stigma small and entire, or in C. obovata thickish 

 and three-lobed. Ovule erect from the base of the cell, 

 anatropous. 



Drupe ovoid or globose, girt at the base by the entirely 

 persistent calyx or its persistent tube, fleshy ; the putamen 

 thick and bony, one-celled, sometimes imperfectly two-celled, 

 indehiscent, one-seeded. Seed subglobose, with a smooth 

 and very thin testa, not sulcate. Embryo surrounded by a 

 rather thin layer of fleshy albumen : cotyledons oval, flat, 

 rather fleshy : radicle short, inferior. 



