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ia hypogynous cupule. Germen 5-locular; lobes of style 5, short 

 stigmatose. Ovules in cells oo , descending or subhorizontal. Fruit. . . ? 

 — A scandent (?) shrub ; branches slender, 2-chotomous ; leaves 

 opposite acuminate reticulate- veined ; flowers in upper axils or ter- 

 minal ; cymes poor (1-few flowered) ; branches rather long bearing 

 several (2-4) remote pairs of decussate bracts, at apex 1 -flowered. 

 (Golumbia.) — See p. 400. 



6. Chrysochlamys Pcepp. and Endl. — Flowers polygamo-dioe- 

 cious ; sepals 4, 5, imbricate. Petals 4-10, imbricate. Stamens oo , 

 central (in female flower sterile) free or connate in an externally 

 antheriferous cyathus ; anthers eifete (or sometimes fertile in sub- 

 hermaphrodite flower), either free and all fertile, or part only fertile ; 

 the interior anantherous and united in a mass ; anthers of fertile 

 stamens small ; cells 2, oblique, laterally or introrsely rimose, 

 Germen (in male flower' 0, or rarely minute efiPete) free, 5-locular; 

 style branches stigmatose adnate radiating, free at apex. Ovules in 

 cells solitary, ascending, amphitropous; micropyle extrorsely inferior. 

 Fruit subfleshy, finally septioidal, 5-valvate. Seeds sessile, amphi- 

 tropous, externally surrounded by a thick membranous aril springing 

 around hilum and sometimes also micropyle, sometimes unequally 

 divided at back ; embryo, etc., of Glusia. — Trees, with gummy juice; 

 leaves opposite penninerved, inflorescence terminal compound ramose, 

 etc., of Clusia. (Trop. America.) — See p. 401. 



7. Tovomita Aubl. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious; sepals 2-4 and 

 petals 4-10, imbricate, often 2-seriate. Stamens oo ; filaments" free 

 subulate; anthers often small terminal,, 2-locular. Germen 4, 5- 

 locular ; style branches same in number short, incrassate and stigma- 

 tose at apex or nearly from base. Ovules in cells solitary ascending, 

 often amphitropous ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit oblong or 

 pear-shaped fleshy, finally capsularly dehiscent, 4-5-valvate ; seeds 

 exarillate or furnished with an external coat thickened to a general 

 fleshy aril ; embryo, etc., nearly of Glusia (or Ghrysochlamys). — 

 Trees or shrubs, with resinous juice ; leaves opposite entire penni- 

 nerved, opaque or pellueid-lineate ; flowers (small) in umbelliform 

 more or less compound (often 3-chotomous) cymes. (Trop. America). 

 —See p. 401. 



8 ? AUanblackia Oliv. — Flowers nearly of Glusia, 6-merous ; 

 sepals unequal and peials imbricate. Stamens oo (in female flower 



