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and marginate, thickened at the base. Panicles terminal, 

 many-flowered, rather coarctate, with stiff rigid divisions, 

 slightly tomentose. Flowers white. Bracts minute. Calyx 

 small, five-leaved, the outer two smaller, resembling bracts. 

 Corolla five-petaled, the outer three large, subrotund, the 

 inner two much smaller, lanceolate, acute. Stamina five, 

 inserted on the bases of the petals ; two fertile, upon the 

 smaller petals, with broad filaments expanding at top into a 

 kind of cup, on which the anther rests, and to whose outer 

 edge it is attached : the anther consists of two yellow lobes 

 resembling masses of pollen which burst transversely. The 

 three sterile stamina which are inserted on the larger petals 

 have thick filaments without anthers, but marked with an 

 oblong cup-like cavity on each side corresponding to the cups 

 of the fertile ones. Before expansion, the five stamina con- 

 nive over the pistil in such a manner that the cup-like cavi- 

 ties are mutually applied to each other ; on expansion the 

 fertile stamina separate with a jerk, by which the pollen is 

 in part dispersed, and the cup becomes erect with the anther 

 resting upon it ; the other three never separate but remain 

 conniving over the pistil. Ovary embraced at the base by 

 a nectarial cup with five toothlets ; ovate, two-celled, each 

 cell containing two ovula attached to the centre of the parti- 

 tion. Style short. Stigma small. Berry ovate, oblique or 

 recurved, somewhat less than an olive, containing a single 

 one-seeded nut. Nut obovate-oblong, acute and curved at 

 the base, carinate along one side, and having a large umbi- 

 lical hollow above the base on the other, smooth, one seed- 

 ed. Seed obovate-oblong, acute at the base, covered with 

 a dry loose brown skin : albumen none ; embryo glutinous on 

 the surface, erect, doubled on itself; Cotyledons thin, foli- 

 aceous, large, round ovate, reflected backwards upon the 

 radicle, and half embracing it laterally ; Radicle inferior, very 

 large, thick, pointed, extending the whole length of the seed, 

 and partly doubled up or curved at the top. 



