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short, monadelphous at the base, each surrounded at the 

 base by 2 collateral, subsessile, fleshy, subglobpse glands, or 

 one 2-lobed or undivided adnate to the base or margin of the 

 filament, or free, seldom without glands : anthers oval, didy- 

 mous, muticous, adnate to a broadish connectivum, erect, 

 turgid in front, 2-celled, the wall at length free from the 

 connectivum by the whole longitudinal cleft, and extrorsely 

 revolute like a valvelet, deciduous, and leaving the connec- 

 tivum naked : rudimentary pistil none. — Female : glands of 

 the throat 4, or seldom 5, undivided or 2-lobed, placed before 

 tlie outer lobes : ovary enclosed in the tube of the calyx, 

 free, sessile, 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous from the apex, 

 anatropal : style terminal, filiform, equalling the calyx, de- 

 ciduous : Stigma fleshy, dilated, irregularly 2 — 4-crenated or 

 lobed : drupe dry, ovate, 8-furrowed or smooth, enclosed in 

 the membranaceous, bladder-shaped, truncated pervious tube 

 of the calyx, free, spongiose, 1 -seeded : seed inverted, sub- 

 globose, testa crustaceous : albumen none : embryo ortho- 

 tropal : cotyledons large, fleshy, lobed, torulose : radicle supe- 

 rior. — Trees : leaves exstipulate, scattered, coriaceous, pe- 

 tioled, ovate or peltate, quite entire : nerves palmate or 

 pinnate : peduncles axillary or terminal, bearing a compound 

 corymbiforra cyme bracteate at the ramifications. 



GENUS I. SARCOSTIGMA. 

 Dicecia Fentandria. Sex: Si/si: 



Beriv. Erom Sarx, Sarcos, flesh, and Stigma. 



Gen. Chab. Mowers dioecious : calyx cupular, 4 — 5-toothed : 

 corolla 4 — 5-parted, tube adnate to a short torus, lobes recurved 

 at the apex, aestivation valvate. Maie : stamens 5, inserted on 

 the tube, alternate to the lobes : filaments free, filiform : anthers 

 versatile, 2-cleft : rudimentary pistil small, pubescent : glands and 

 staminodes none. Female : sterile stamens 5, alternating with 

 the sepals, linear : ovary pubescent, 1-celled, ovules 2, collateral, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cavity : stigma sessile, thick, sub- 

 capitate, or obliquely reniform, deciduous : drupe oblong, seated 

 on the hardened calyx, putamen wrinkled, 1-seeded : seed exalbu- 

 minous. — Twining shrubs : leaves scattered, exstipulate, coria- 

 ceous, quite entire, feather-nerved, reticulated, glabrous : spikes 

 long, somewhat interrupted : flowers glomerate, small. 



