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entire, coriaceous, 3-nerved or subpenninerved ; flowers in axillary, 

 umbelliform or corymbiform cymes, pedicels slender, 2-bracteolate. 

 [Both trop. Americas.) — See p. 27. 



63. Axinandra Thw. — Flowers nearly of Mouriri, B-merous, 

 receptacle subcampanulate or obconical. Calyx short, 5-lobed. Petals 

 either more or less connivent and simultaneously deciduous, contorted, 

 or (Naxiandra) indup.licately valvate, at apex and fimbriate margin 

 much inflexed. Stamens 10 (of Blahea). Germen, &c., of Blakea 

 (or Mouriri), 5, 6-celled. Ovules in cells 1, or oitenev (Naxiandra) 2, 

 collaterally ascending from bottom of internal angle ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit suberose or subligneous, girt below with 

 cupular adnate receptacle, finally loculicidal ; valves thick, angular 

 within. Seeds in cells oftener solitary, suberect ; chalaza superior 

 produced to vertical membranous wing; cotyledons of fleshy embryo 

 plano-convex, auriculate at base. Glabrous trees ; branches 4-gonal 

 or sometimes 4-alate ; wings more or less produced in spurious stipules 

 to nodes ; leaves opposite or 3-nate, entire or sinuate, penninerved or 

 obscurely 3-nerved ; flowers in axillary and terminal, simple or ramose 

 racemes, solitary in axils of bracts, shortly pedicellate or cymose, 

 few. (Ceylon, Borneo.) — See p. 27. 



54. Memecylon L. — Flowers (oi Axinandra or Mouriri) 4-merous; 

 petals acute or obtuse, contorted. Stamens 8 (of Mouriri), connective 

 furnished dorsally with 1 sessile concave glandule. Germen quite 

 inferior and adnate to receptacle, sulcate at depressed apex, 1 -celled. 

 Ovules 6-co , verticillate around free central placenta, ascending; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior. Berry globular, depressed at apex, 1- 

 celled, oftener 1-spermous ; embryo of ascending seed exalbuminous 

 fleshy thick involute ; cotyledons pointed, radicle terete inferior. 

 Other characters of Mouriri. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves entire 

 coriaceous, penninerved or obscurely 3-nerved ; flowers in axillary or 

 lateral, sometimes (Spathandra) terminal and axillary, more or less 

 compound ramose, subumbellate or corymbiform cymes. (Trop. Asia, 

 Oceania and Africa.) — See p. 28. 



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