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than the stamina. Stigma small. Follicles two, baccate, as 

 large as citrons, red, diverging, subglobose, exuding a milky 

 juice when cut, with a ridge along the middle and one at 

 each side which unite in a short blunt point, one-celled, 

 many-seeded; the cell is recurved into the form of a cres- 

 cent. Seeds contained in red fleshy arils or lobules which 

 are angled by mutual compression, oblong, chrysaloid, hol- 

 lowed on the one side with incurved rounded edges, con- 

 vex on the other, and longitudinally corrugated. Embryo 

 contained in a conform albumen; cotyledons flat, round, 

 cordate ; radicle centripetal, cylindrical, longer than the 

 cotyledons. 



X. OLEINiE. 



LINOCIERA ODORATA. ( W, J.) 



Diandria Monogynia, N, O, Oleince, 



Foliis lanceolatis utrinque acutis glaberrimis, paniculis 

 axillaribus foliis brevioribus. 

 At Natal and on Pulo Mosella. 



A large shrub, with subdichotomous branches. Leaves 

 sub-opposite, short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both 

 ends, entire, smooth and coriaceous, 4 — 5 inches long. 

 Panicles axillary, opposite, much shorter than the leaves ; 

 peduncles opposite, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers subsessile, fra- 

 grant. Bracts small, oblong. Calyx four-parted. Corolla 

 white, almost 4-petaled, petals long, linear, united by pairs 

 by means of the filaments, slightly cohering at the other 

 divisions. Stamina two; anthers large, emarginate at the 

 apex. Ovary two-celled, each cell containing two linear 

 pendulous parallel ovula. Style scarce any. Stigma bifid. 



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