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Gnetum. | GNETACER. 4,95 
Cotyledons 2, large, or small and tooth-like ; radicle superior.— 
Trees or shrubs, often scandent, with jointed branchlets. Leaves 
either broad and opposite, or reduced to a minute 2-4-toothed sheath 
at the joints. owers forming interrupted or imbricate dense 
globular to cylindrical catkins arranged singly or by 2 or a few on 
a brachiate branched peduncle. 
A small order of very little interest to the forester and possess- 
te no © rh a gas The seeds of Gnetum are eaten by 
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GNETUM, L. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious, intermixed with bristle-like 
bs, rarely erect tr r shrubs, with broad, pale entire 
leaves, the branchlets thiolbenadcjoil nted. 
* Fruit narrowed into a longer or shorter stalk ; hair-like 
scales round “sen flowers tawny or rusty-coloured. 
Dio ecious ¢ 
it, especially while se covered with silvery scales, the stalk 
thick and aed Boe New of a thinner texture with a very lax 
thin net-veinati . G. edule. 
Fruits quite glabrous, the stalk slender, about 2-3 lin. long or 
ger; leaves rigidly coriaceous, the net-veination. rather 
close, elegant and conspicuous —. . . G. funiculare. 
* Ovary and fruit sessile and glabrows 
Divecious ber; leaves rigidly coriaceous, turning black in 
M dryin round the ovary ae = us, brown . G. neglectum. 
Onoecious erect shrub or treelet ; ag “thick. membranous, 
g spas — in drying ; hairs round ~) flowers 
— white . - G. gnemon. 
, 4+ G, edule Bl. — Gyoot-nway. bedi evergreen, lofty, ree 
seal, dioecious, with Oye trunk somewhat. flat nat 4-5 ft. 
girth, all parts quite glabrous ; aces about a line thick, blackish, 
longitudinal] ally swollen and lenticellate-rough ; leaves ovate-oblong 
weg ates fe ona }-} in. long petiole, shortly and bluntish acuminate 
or almost ost apiculate, 5-7 in. long, obtuse or rounded at the base, 
