Guetum. | GNETACER. 497 
quite glabrous, ovoid, acuminate ; fruits (according to Griffith) 
lanceolate-ovate, apiculate, sessile, and quite smooth. 
Has.—Arracan, and forests of South Tenasserim. 
4. G. gnemon, L.—An evergreen tree (10—15+4—5 +1}—2), 
usually remaining shrubby, monoecious, erect, all parts quite glab- 
rous; leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptically-oblong, acute at the 
base, on a slender petiole 3-4 lin. long, longer or shorter acuminate, 
catkins up to an inch long, androgynous, peduneled, by 1-3 or 
rarely by 5, forming a peduncled small brachiate panicle in the axils 
of the leaves or at the end of the branchlets; involucre-cups almost 
membranous, spreading or reflexed, waved, rather distant; male 
and female flowers together and surrounded by copieus short white 
airs; ovary sessile, smooth, acuminate; drupes sessile, oblong, 
apiculate, smooth and glossy, orange-coloured, about } in. long. 
Has.— Frequent in dense forests of South Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb. 
CONIFER. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in catkins. Braets in males 
numerous, inserted to the rachis, more or less crowded and imbri- 
cate, at the base very often narrowed into a stalk, peltate or half- 
peltate at the apex, sometimes produced on the back in a resinous 
gland, bearing the anthers on the under-surface or laterally. Sta- 
mens usually reduced to sessile anthers, or rarely with a short 
lament, by 2 or more under each bract, the anther arranged in 
a single or double row, 1-celled, opening by a longitudinal (rarely 
_ by_a transverse) slit. Bracts in females 4 or more, free or more 
or less connate, arranged in spirals, decussately or in whorls of 3 
or 4 each, the lower and uppermost ones sometimes sterile, mem- 
branous, chartaceous or coriaceous, or (along with the rachis) fleshy. 
Tnvolucre (in Zaxinee) simple or double, short or urceolate and 
enclosing the ova Ovaries 2 or more, rarely solitary, usually 
collateral or su sed, more or less compressed, with a solitary 
orthotrop ovule; style short or very short ; stigma almost orbicular, 
often more or less 2-cleft. Fruit-cones either consisting of coria- 
€eous or woody imbricate or decussate scales, or of variously connate 
fleshy ones and truly or spuriously drupaceous. Nuts by 2 or more, 
rarely solitary, usually shorter than the scales; pericarp usually 
NY, woody or membranous, often with 1 or 2 or 3 wings, rarely 
Wingless, Embryo (sometimes several embryos in the same se 
Testing in the axis of the oil -fleshy or mealy albumen and. almost 
a8 long ; cotyledons 2, but often deeply lobed so as to simulate 
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