CiXXVIlT. PHYTOLAOOE^. 



629 



Achatocarpus, 

 9 fibwer (mag.) 



Achatocarpus. 

 Pistil cut YferticaUy (mag.). 



Achatocarpus. 

 Fruit but vertloaflyi 



solitary and sub-eicentric, distinct or more or less colierent, seated on ah incon- 

 spicuous gynophore, or fixed to a central column, 1-celled ; styles ventral, distinct 

 or rarely colierent at tlie base, tips recurved and stigmatiferous on their inner surface • 

 ovules usually solitary, basifixed, campylotropous or rarely semi^anatropous. Feuit 

 a berry, utricle, coccus, nut or samara. Seed erect ; testa membranous or crusta- 

 ceous, usually shining and fragile. Bmbrto sometimes annular or arched, peri- 

 pheric, surrounding a copious floury albumen with flat large or narrow and unequal 

 cotyledons, the edges of the outer closing round the inner ; sometimes straight, with 

 foliaceous convolute cotyledons and little or no albumen ; radicle inferior. 



