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5 inches in length, 2 inches or more in width, on petioles half an inch 

 or an inch long, which are not perceptibly articulated with the blade : 

 the compound leaves have similar digitate leaflets, only more oblong 

 and commonly larger, from 4 to 7 inches in length, often cuneate- 

 n arrowed, or the lateral ones oblique at the base, on partial petioles 

 of 4 to 12 lines long; the common petiole often 3 inches long. 

 Peduncles axillary, sometimes in pairs, shorter than the petiole, bear- 

 ing a thyrsoid or paniculate, many-flowered, compound cyme, which 

 seldom exceeds the petioles. Bracts and bractlets minute. Pedicels 

 fascicled, a line and a half long. Flowers diceciously or perhaps 

 monoeciously polygamous ; the male with a small and sterile ovary ; 

 the female with short and effete stamens. Flower-buds oblong, about 

 the length of the pedicels. Calyx deeply four-cleft, somewhat glan- 

 dular; the lobes broadly triangular, imbricated in aestivation, persis- 

 tent. Corolla thrice the length of the calyx; the petals narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, with a minute inflexed point, valvate in aestivation, 

 deciduous. Stamens 8, in the male flowers as long as the petals : 

 filaments subulate-filiform, glabrous, somewhat glandular-dotted ; the 

 4 alternate ones rather shorter than the others : anthers oval, cordate, 

 or emarginate at both ends, two-celled. Disk or gynophore nearly as 

 tall as the ovary it supports, but narrower, densely canescent or iomen- 

 tose. Ovary (of the fertile flowers) globular, glabrous, four-celled, 

 surmounted by a slender style, which is commonly twice or thrice the 

 length of the ovary : stigma somewhat four-lobed, thick. The sterile 

 pistil bears a short and more or less rudimentary style and stigma. 

 Ovules 2 in each cell, between amphitropous and anatropous, pendu- 

 lous ; the micropyle superior. Fruit capsular, 3 lines in diameter, 

 globular, slightly four-lobed (the carpels united quite to the summit), 

 four-celled, loculicidally four-valved from the apex : the chartaceous 

 endocarp separating from the thin exocarp ; the cells two-seeded, rarely 

 by abortion one-seeded. Seeds hanging by the slender funiculus after 

 escaping from the cell, oval, scarcely 2 lines long, amphitropous, with 

 a small hilum : the testa very black, smooth and shining, somewhat 

 drupaceous, as in Zardhoxylum. Embryo as long as the albumen : 

 cotyledons oval, flat : radicle short, slightly bent. 



Plate 32. — Acronychia diversifolia : a branch, in flower and 

 fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. An opening sterile flower. 2. An 

 expanded sterile flower. 3. A posterior, and, 4, anterior view of a 



