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into 2-3 secondary branches, very gradually narrowing above to a very fine and 

 acuminate point, slightly sinuous between the flowers ; they carry glomerules of 

 three flowers (one female between two males) on the lower two-thirds, and only 

 germinate male flowers on the remainder; when bearing the fruits they are 

 glabrous, but they appear to have been covered by the same kind of trichomes 

 as in O. oleracea and regia, though of a somewhat different form (they are almost 

 sessile and formed by a glomerule of very inflated and suddenly acuminate radiat- 

 ing cells). Male flowers considerably smaller than in 0. regia and very irregular, 

 when full grown in bud 3 mm. long, ovoid; sepals deltoid, hyaline; petals five 



Figure 115. Oreodoxa princeps. a, fruit, side view; b, longitudinal section of the 

 same fruit; c, the kernel of the above fruit; d, seed as seen from the raphal side; 

 e, seed, side view. 



times as long as the calyx, membranous, ovate, rather acute, concave. Stamens 

 six, filaments terete, subulate, slightly longer than the petals during the anthesis; 

 anthers broadly ovate, 1.5-2 mm. long, rounded at the apex, having the cells 

 separated at the base nearly to the middle ; the connective is broad and of a dark 

 color. Fruiting perianth flattened, 5 mm. broad between the points of the petals; 

 sepals hyaline, very narrow, form a very narrow ring round the scar at the base 

 of the fruit; petals deltoid, bluntish. PWuit globose-obovoid and slightly asymmet- 

 rical or gibbous, 17 mm. long, 13 mm. broad, with the remains of the stigmas 



