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ascending. Feuit indehiscent or capsular. Embryo exalbuminous or albuminous. — 

 Stem woody. Leaves generally alternate. 



Large oi- small trees with watery juice and cylindric branches. Leaves 

 alternate, often fascicled at the top of the branches, very rarely opposite {Garyocar, 

 Hajploclathra, &c.), usually simple, rarely digitate [Caryocar, Anthodiscus) , coriaceous 

 or membranous, penninerved, entire or toothed ; stipules 0, or very rarely 2, 

 minute, caducous. Elotvees §, rarely diclinous {Actinidia, Omphalocarpum, &e.), 

 regular, sometimes axillary, solitary or fascicled, sometimes in a terminal raceme or 

 panicle ; peduncle jointed at its base, naked or bracteate. Sepals 5, rarely 4-6-7, 

 free, or slightly connate at the base, imbricate. Petals 6, rarely 4-6-9, hypogynous, 

 free, or oftener coherent at the base into a ring or short tube, aestivation imbricate 

 or contorted. Stamens usually indefinite, rarely equal with the petals {Pentaphylax, 

 Pelliciera), or double [Stachyurus) , hypogynous, free or variously coherent at the 

 base, or adherent to the base of the corolla ; anthers basifixed and erect, or dorsifixed 

 and versatile, cells parallel, opening by a slit, or sometimes by an apical pore 

 {Saurauja, Pentaphylax). Ovart free, sometimes more or less buried in the torus 

 {Anneslea, Visnea), base large and sessile, 3-5- (rarely 2-) celled [Pelliciera), or many- 

 celled {Anthodiscus, Omphalocarpum, &c.) ; styles as many as cells, free or more or 

 less connate ; stigmas pointed or obtuse ; ovules 2-oo in each cell, rarely solitary, 

 erect, or horizontal and anatropous, or pendulous and anatropous, or campylo- 

 tropous, sometimes fixed laterally and semi-anatropous. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous 

 and indehiscent, or a loculicidal or septicidal capsule. Seeds numerous or few, 

 fixed to the inner angle of the cells on projecting fleshy or spongy placentas ; albu- 

 men often scanty or 0, rarely copious {Actinidia, Saurauja, Stachyurus). Embryo 

 straight, curved or coiled; cotyledons sometimes semi-cylindric, continuous with the 

 radicle, but shorter, sometimes larger, flat, crumpled, folded lengthwise, or thick 

 and fleshy. 



Tribe I.' BEIZOBOLEJEJ. 



Petals imbricate, or united in a cap. Anthers dorsifixed, sub-versatile. 

 Fruit indehiscent. Seeds solitary in the cells ; albumen or very scanty ; radicle 

 superior, very large, bent at top, or coiled ; cotyledons minute. — Leaves digitate., 

 Eacemes terminal. GENEEA. 



Caryocar. Anthodiscus. 



Tribe II. TEBWSTRCEMIEJE. 



Petals imbricate. Anthers basifixed. Fruit rarely dehiscent. Seeds generally 

 few; albumen fleshy, usually scanty; embryo inflexed or arched; cotyledons 

 shorter and not broader than the radicle. — Trees or shrubs. Peduncles one- 

 flowered. PEINCIPAL GENERA. 



Visnea. * Ternstrcemia. Pentaphylax. Adinandra. Cleyera. Freziera. Eurya. 



'"These tribes are taken from the ' Genera Plantarum,' omitting Marcgramea, for which see p. 275.— Ed. 



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