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globular, the size of a small pea, on nearly a line long or longer 
peduncles, fleshy, smooth and glossy, flesh-coloured. 
Has.—Frequent in the dry forests and in shrubberies of Ava and Prome.— 
Fr. March.—l.—SS.—=Ca8. Ca. 
APOCYNEA. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx free, 5-parted, or the 
sepals distinct, imbricate in bud, bearing oceasionally small glands 
or scales inside at the base. Corolla-lobes 5, spreading, twisted- 
mbricate or rarely valvate in bud, the throat sometimes closed with 
4 corona of scales, and often hairy. Stamens 5, inserted in the 
tube and alternating with the corolla-lobes; anthers erect, turned 
inwards, 2-celled, the cells opening in longitudinal slits, either free 
and included in the usually swollen part of the corolla-tube, or 
sometimes exserted and connate or connivent in a cone or ring round 
the style. Pollen not collected in masses, but the auricles at the 
e of the anthers or the tips occasionally without pollen. Ova 
2-celled with axile placentas or more usually the 2 carpels distinct and 
with parietal placentas, the cells or carpels with few to numerous 
ovules in 2 or more rows attached to the placentas; styles 1 or 2, 
distinet at the base, but united upwards; stigma usually thickened, 
mitre-like, membranous or bulbous at the base, terminating in a 
short, entire or 2-cleft point. Fruit either a single drupe or berry, 
°r more frequently each or one of the carpels forms a follicle 
“pening along the inner edge, or a drupe or berry. Seeds pen- 
dulous or tarely ascending or peltately attached, usually albu- 
be: . 
out gland-like small interpetiolar stipules. Flowers usually cymose 
or ¢ymose-panicled, axillary or termiaal. Bracts usually very small, 
Tarely larger and coloured, deciduous; bractlets usually none. 
1sonous principles prevail, and the ordeal nut (Thanginia © 
venenifera) stands foremost in this regard. The seeds of Cerbera 
48, Thevetia and others, and the whole plant of the common 
er (Nerium oleander) are formidable poisons. For t 
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