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definite, usually springing from a prolonged or dilated torus, free or 
sometimes 5-adeIphous, filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, 
2-10-celled; styles columnar, or divided into as many divisions as there 
are cells to the ovary, stigmas usually distinct, rarely confluent or sessile. 
Ovules attached to the inner angle of the cells of the ovary j if few in 
number, often pendulous from the apex or ascending from the base ; if 
more numerous, disposed in 2 or more ranks, auatropous j raphe ventral 
or lateral. Fruit fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, 2-10 or by 
abortion 1-celled (cells sometimes divided by false partitions) ; carpels 
separable or always united. Seed* 1 or many, asceuding, pendulous or 
transverse, with no arillus ; testa leathery or crustaceous or pilose; al- 
bumen fleshy, abundant or scanty, rarely wanting j embryo straight or 
slightly curved, cotyledons leafy, rarely fleshy, radicle next the hilnm. — 
Distrib. about 370 species; most abnndant in the tropics of either 
hemisphere. 
Series A. Holopetalw. Petals glabrous or rarely downy, coloured, thin, 
unguicnlate, entire or nearly so, imbricate or twisted in the bud. 
Anthers globose or oblong, opening by slits. 
Tribe I. Brownlowieae. Sepals combined below 
into a cup. Anthers globose, cells ulti- 
mately confluent at the top. 
* Staminodes 5. 
Carpels distinct, 2-valved ... ... 1. Brownlowia, 
Carpels combined, indehiscent, winged ... 2. Pentace. 
** Staminodes 0. 
Stamens on a raised torus ... 3. Schoutenia, 
Stamens on a contracted torus ... ... 4. Berrya. 
Tribe II. Grewiece. Sepals distinct. Petals 
glandular at the base. Stamens springing 
from the apex of a raised torus. 
Fruit drupaceous, not prickly ... ... 5. Orewia, 
Fruit dry indehiscent or 3-5 coccous, prickly 6, Triumfetta. 
Tribe III. TUiea. Sepals distinct: petals not 
glandular. Stamens springing from a 
contracted torus. 
Herbs or undershrnbs with 3 or 5-celled 
capsules: seeds without hairs ... 7. Corchoras. 
Trees with 2-celled capsules; seeds with 
marginal hairs ... ... ... 8. Trichosperinum. 
Series 13. Heteropetalce. Petals usually incised, rarely entire or absent, 
induplicate or imbricate not twisted : anthers linear, opening 
by a terminal pore often within npical awn or tuft of hairs. 
Stamens on a raised torus j fruit drupaceous 9. Elceocarpns. 
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