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nate, the innermost often larger. Petals 5, rarely 4-9, free or connate 

 below, imbricate or contorted. Stamens numerous (definite in Sladenia 

 and Stachyurus) free or connate, usually adnate to the base of the decidu- 

 ous corolla ; anthers basifixcd or versatile, dehiscing by slits or rarely by 

 terminal pores. Ovary free (^-inferior in Anneslea), sessile, 3-5-celled, 

 (many-celled in Actinidia) ; styles as many, free or connate, stigmas 

 usually small ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, rarely solitary, never orthotro- 

 pous. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds few or numerous, placentas 

 axile ; albumen scanty or 0, rarely copious; embryo straight or hippo- 

 crepiform, cotyledons various. Distrib. Rare in temperate, abundant 

 in tropical Asia and America, almost wanting in Africa and entirely in 

 Australasia; species about 270. 



Tribe I. Ternstr(EMIG$. Peduncles 1-flowered. Petals imbricate. 

 Stamens adherent to the base of the corolla; anthers basifixed. Fruit 

 (in Indian genera) indehiscent. Seeds usually few; albumeu fleshy, 

 usually scanty. Embryo curved; cotyledons shorter than the radicle 

 and about as broad. 



* Fruit inferior. 



1. Anneslea. 

 ** Fruit superior. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. 



Anthers usually pilose, stamens and 



seeds numerous, ovary 3-5-celled 2. Adinandra. 

 Flowers dioecious. 



Flowers large, on long pedicels ... 3. Temstrcemia. 



Flowers small, sessile or sub-sessile ... 4. Furya. 

 Tribe II. Saurauje^. Peduncles many-flowered. Petals imbri- 

 cate. Anthers versatile. Fruit usually pulpy, i-arely sub-dehiscent. 

 (Seeds numerous, minute, albumeu abundant. Radicle straight or slightly 

 curved and longer than the cotyledons. 



Climbers, dioecious .. ..5. Actinidia. 



Trees or shrubs ; usually hermaphrodite ... 6. Saurauja. 

 Tribe III. GoRDONiEiE. Peduncles 1-flowered, often very short. 

 Petals imbricate. Autliers versatile. Fruit indehiscent or loculicidal. 

 Albumen scanty or 0. Cotyledons various; radicle short, straight or 

 curved. 



* Fruit indehiscent. 



7. Pyrcnaria. 

 ** Fruit dehiscent. 



Ovules lateral, seeds winged, radicle in- 

 ferior ... ••■ ... 8, Scliima. 

 Ovules pendulous, seeds winged, radicle 



superior ... ... ... 9. Gorclonia. 



