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natc, the innermost often larger. Petals 5, rarely 4-9, free or connate 
below, imbricate or eon tor ted. Stamens numerous (definite in Sladenia 
and Stachyurus) free or connate, usually adnate to t he base of the decidu- 
ous corolla; anthers basifixed or versatile, dehiscing by slits or rarely by 
terminal pores. Ovary free (^-inferior in Anneslea), sessile, 3-5-celled, 
(many-celled in Actimdia) ; 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 
axilo ; 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. Ternsteuumi E3:. Peduncles 1-flowered. Petals imbricate. 
Stamens adherent to the base of the corolla; antherB basifixed. Fruit 
(in Indian genera) indohiscent. Seeds usually few; albumen fleshy, 
usually scanty. Embryo curved; cotyledons shorter than the radielo 
and about as broad. 
* Fruit inferior. 
1. Anneslea, 
** Fruit superior. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Anthers usually piloRe, stamens and 
seeds numerous, ovary 3-5-cclled 2. Adinandra. 
Flowers dioecious. 
Flowers large, on long pedicels ... 3. Ternstnvinia. 
Flowers small, sessile or sab-sessile ... 4. Enrya. 
Tribe II. SauRAI'JEA'. Peduncles many-flowered. Petal* imbri- 
cate. Anthers versatile. Fruit usually pulpy, rarely sub-dehiscent. 
Nr, & numerous, minute, albumen abundant. Radicle straight or slightly 
curved and longer than the cotyledons. 
Climbers, dioecious .. .. 5. AcUnicUa. 
Trees or shrubs ; usually hermaphrodite ... 6. Saurauja. 
Tribe TIL Qo&DQTSlSM. Peduncles 1-flowered, often very short. 
Petals imbricate. Anthers versatile. Fruit indehiscent or loculicidal. 
Albumen scanty or 0. Cotyledons various ; radicle short, straight or 
curved. 
* Fruit indehiscent. 
7. Pyrenaria. 
** Fruit dehiscent. 
Ovules lateral, seeds winged, radicle in- 
ferior ... ... ... 8, Srhima. 
Ovules pendulous, seeds winged, radicle 
superior ... ... ... 9. (lordouia. 
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