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superior ; raphe dorsal ; funicle short incrassate. Fruit drupaceous ; 

 pyrenes 1-4, sometimes thin; seeds compressed descending albu- 

 minous ; embryo . . . ? — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves alternate simple ; 

 stipules ciliate-ramose, small or ; flowers solitary or in generally 

 few-flowered axillary bracteolate cymes, and adnate to costa to middle 

 of upper surface of leaf; pedicles short, not articulate. [India, 

 Japan.) — Seep. 69. 



5. Aucuba Thunb. — Flowers dioecious, often 4-merous. Recep- 

 tacle of male flower short depressed ; calyx gamosepalous small, 

 shortly 4-dentate. Petals 4, much longer, valvate, induplicate at 

 apex. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; filaments short inserted under 

 minutely 4-lobed disk ; anthers oblong, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 rudimentary in centre of disk, concave or 0. Receptacle of female 

 flower long ovoid or tubular, enclosing adnate germen, bearing at 

 margin 4 calycinal teeth and as many alternate valvate or indupli- 

 cately valvate petals. Germen inferior, 1-celled ; crowned with 

 rather fleshy disk and short thick style, sulcate within and at apex 

 stigmatose and unequally capitate. Ovule in cell 1, ventral, inserted 

 under apex, descending ; coat simple ; micropyle introrsely superior ; 

 funicle short incrassate. Fruit baccate ovoid, crowned with teeth of 

 calyx or their scars and short style. Seed descending, coat mem- 

 branous ; albumen copious horny ; embryo 3, 4-times lesg than 



albumen ; cotyledons short; radicle terete superior Glabrous shrubs; 



leaves opposite, petiolate, ovately lanceolate serrate coriaceous glossy 

 (blackening when dry) ; flowers in compound cymiferous racemes ; 

 pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate. (Temp. India, China, Japan.) — 

 See p. 70. 



6. Griselinia Foest. — Flowers (nearly of Aucuba) dioecious, 4, 

 6-merous. Receptacle of male flower short ; calyx short dentate. 

 Petals more or less imbricate. Stamens as many alternate, inserted 

 under central lobed disk ; anthers oblong or sub-2-dymous, introrse, 

 sometimes subbasifixed, 2-rimose, sometimes 4-locellate. Receptacle 

 of female flower ovoid or tubular, enclosing adnate germen ; style 

 soon or from the base divided into 3 short recurved branches, at apex 

 stigmatose within ; cells 1-3 ; fertile oftener 1 ; the others generally 

 effete. Ovule descending (of Aucuba) ; raphe dorsal, funicle short 

 incrassate. Fruit baccate, oftener 1-, more rarely 2-spermous ; seed 



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