LAURACEZ. 467 
extrorse ; 3 innermost quite sterile ovate or subsagittate. Germen 
inserted in bottom of receptacle, free; style capitate stigmatiferous 
at apex; ovule subpendulous anatropous. Fruit wholly included ; re- 
ceptacle much thickened with woody vertical dissepiments projecting 
inwards ; pericarp thin, closely appressed to seed and like it divided 
into 6 lobes by receptacular dissepiments, except just below apex, 
long crowned by persistent perianth and androceum, finally umbilicate 
at apex. Embryo fleshy, shaped like seed and pericarp; radicle 
short, straight, superior; cotyledons deeply 3-lobed below.—Trees ; 
leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; inflorescences axillary and 
terminal often short (Madagascar). See p. 433. 
17. Ampelodaphne Muissn.'—Flowers dicecious ; receptacle in- 
fundibuliform, lined within by a thin disk; perianth-leaves 6 
regular, finally deciduous. Stamens 9 (in female flower sterile, 
sometimes 3 or 6 absent) inserted on throat of receptacle, 2- 
celled ; three innermost extrorse, 2-glandular. Germen (rudimentary 
or 0 in male flower) inserted and included in bottom of receptacle. 
Fruit (baccate P) long included in receptacle and crowned by peri- 
anth, finally half-exserted and surrounded at base by truncate quite 
entire lower part of receptacle——Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 
or subverticillate, coriaceous’ penniveined; inflorescences many- 
flowered pyramidal, axillary or subterminal (Zropical South America’). 
18. Aydendron Ness & Marr.*—Flowers hermaphrodite ; recep- 
tacle infundibuliform or urceolate; perianth-leaves 6 subequal, 
equal to receptacle or longer deciduous. Stamens 9, fertile inserted 
in throat of receptacle; anthers ovate obtuse, dehiscing by 2 sub- 
apical valves (apparently 3-porricidal through early fall of valves) ; 
innermost 3 extrorse, 2-glandular at base. Sterile stamens 0 or 
minute. Germen included in receptacle. Berry almost completely 
included or half-exserted ; rim of cupule, single or double; inner lip 
inflexed finally erect; outer patulous or scarcely prominent.—Trees 
or shrubs; leaves alternate penniveined;. inflorescences axillary or 
subterminal (Zropical America’). 
1 Prodr., 81. 3 Nexs & Mant, in Linnea, viii. 36.—NeEzs’ 
2 Species 8. MiQ., Pl. Surin., 203.—MeEIssn.,  Syst., 245.—ENDL., Gen., n. 2040.—MEISSN., 
in Mart. Fl. Bras., Laurae., 167, t. 57.— Prodr., 87, 510. 
Watp., Ann., iii, 112 (@appertia). 4 Species about 35. NzEs, in ees xxi, 
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