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descending, &c., of Aucuba. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, 

 glabrous; leaves alternate, more or less unsymmetrical, entire, 

 angular, or spinosely dentate ; petiole at base dilated on both sides 

 to a subvaginate lamina, articulate; flowers in simple or oftener 

 ramose cymiferous racemes ; pedicels articulate. {New Zealand, temp, 

 and mount. Brazil, Chili.) — Seep. 71. 



7. Torricellia DC. — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle of males small, 

 widely obconical. Sepals 5, or more rarely 3, 4, various in form, 

 generally short. Petals longer, concave, induplicate-valvate, inflexed 

 at apex. Stamens same in number and alternating with petals ; 

 filaments short, inserted under flattish disk ; anthers introrse, 2- 

 rimose. Receptacle of female flower saclike ovoid, enclosing adnate 

 germen. • Calyx inserted at. mouth of receptacle, short, unequally 3-6- 

 lobed. Germen inferior (in male flower rudimentary, very small or 0), 

 ■3-5-celled ; style branches 3-5, rather thick, generally papillose 

 except at back, subentire or 2-fid at apex. Ovule in cells (often in 

 part sterile) 1, descending; micropyle introrsely superior; funicle 

 short, above micropyle thickened to obturator. " Drupe ovoid oblique, 

 crowned with style ; putamen crustaceous, many-celled, 1-spermous. 

 Seed curved ; coat membranous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo very small 

 obcordate." — Small branched trees ; branches marked with scars of 

 leaves meduUose ; leaves alternate, petiolate, cordately rotundate 

 'digitately 6-7-nerved, clearly dentate, deciduous ; petioles articulate 

 at' base, vaginate ; flowers in pendulous very ramose compound cymi- 

 ferous racemes ; male pedicels not articulate ; female thicker 2-8- 

 bracteolate under articulation. (Temp, mount. India.)— See p. 72. 



II. GARRYEJ5. 



8. Garrya Dougl. — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle of males small 

 obconical. Calyx (?) scarcely conspicuous, rarely rather large, very 

 shortly 4-dentate (or 0). Petals (?) 4, 2 anterior, 2 posterior, ex- 

 ternally pilose at apex, valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens 4, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments free slender ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, 

 2-rimose. Germen rudimentary central hollowed or scarcely visible. 

 Receptacle of female flower saclike or shortly lageniform, sometimes 



