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cells 1 -ovulate; style cylmdrical or long conical; branches 3, 

 usually short recurved, 2-lobed. at apex ; inwardly sulcate and 

 papillose-stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous; cocci 2-valved, 1- 

 spermous ; seed subterete or ancipiti-compressed, arillate at micropyle ; 

 cotyledons of copiously albuminous embryo foliaceous, sometimes 

 lateral. — Trees ; juice milky ; leaves alternate penninervcd coria- 

 ceous; stipules caducous; flowers in sbort terminal or oftener 

 axillary ramified cymiferous racemes ; each cyme sub-capituliform, 

 female flower central, finally laterally dejected involucellate terminal. 

 Bracts of involucel generally 4, furnished at base with lateral sessilb 

 discoid glands, finally lateral. Male flowers in axil of each bract 

 cymose ; cymes 1-parous ; pedicels articulate below calyx ; bracts 

 below inflorescence all lateral ; ^ each stipate from an axillary glan- 

 duliform^ bud. {West. trop. Africa, Madagascar.^) 



VI. DIGHAPETALE^. 



110. Dichapetalum Dtjp.-Th. -^ Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous 5-merous ; receptacle convex, more rarely slightly or 

 sometimes much concave ; perianth and hence androceum superior, 

 more rarely semi-inferior or all inferior. Sepals free or connate at 

 base, subequal, imbricated. Petals alternate free equal, cuculate- 

 2 -fid or 2-lobed at apex, furnished at middle withia with an inflexed 

 tongue or rather prominent vertical rib, induplicate valvate or sub- 

 imbricate. Stamens 5, alter nipetalous; filaments free ; anthers in- 

 trorse ; connective rather thick ; cells longitudinally rimose. Glands 

 of hypogynous disk 5, oppositipetalous, subentire or 2-lobed, free or 

 connate. Germen free, sometimes partly or all inferior and adnate 

 to concave receptacle, 2-3-locular ; ovules in cell 2, collaterally 

 descendent ; micropyle^ extrorse superior ; obturator small, sometimes 

 rather thick, or ; style divided above into 2, 3, branches, inwardly 

 stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit dry, coriaceous or drupaceous ; 

 putamen 1-3-locular, indehiscent ; exocarp more or less fleshy, 

 longitudinally cut between cells. Seeds 1-3 ; cotyledons of thick 

 fleshy embryo plano-convex ; radicle short superior. — Small trees or 



• Common involucre (A. Juss.). ' Spec. 3. H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 78 ; ii. 



a Taken for glands of involucre (A. Juse.). 32 ; v. 366, not. 



yoL. V, 2 H 



