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fewer, are matured : they are all borne on the summit of a cylin- 
drieal gynaecium, whieh inereases in length and thiekness with 
age, and on its summit are seen the cieati’ices of the abortive 
ovaries, while all those that have been fertilized are carried up, 
eaeh on a separate elongated ligneous fork, whieh grows out of 
the gynseeium, the fruits as they ripen being articulated on 
them : these radiating carpophori are solid emanations from the 
gynaecium itself, and form no part of the ovarial increment. 
This is a very remarkable feature in Tiliacora, being analogous 
to a similar growth which I have described in Anamirta and 
Sciadotcmia. It is probable that in different species of Tiliacora 
the number of ovaries may vary ; but hitherto we have no evi- 
dence on the subject. In the development of the ovary, the 
growth is almost entirely on the dorsal side, and is so extremely 
excentric that, at maturity, the styles all connive towards the 
centre, in close proximity to the basal points of attachment of 
the drupes, which radiate horizontally round the gynaecium. It 
is not necessary to repeat here the peculiar features connected 
with the development of the putamen and seed, as they have 
been sufficiently explained ; it remains, therefore, only to give a 
more full diagnosis of the genus. 
Tiliacora, Coleb. — Flores dioici vel interdum polygami. Masc. 
Sepala 9-12, in ordine ternario alternatim disposita ; exteriora 
gradatim minora et bracteiformia j 3 interiora multo majora, 
obovata, subcarnosa, sestivatione valvata. Petala 6, minima, 
carnosula, cuneato-oblonga, subbiseriata. Stamina 6, sub- 
sequalia, petalis 3-4-plo longiora et opposita, libera j fila- 
menta gracilia, apice incrassata; antherce 2-lobfe, introrsse, 
lobis oblongis, dorsaliter semi-immersis, apice contiguis, imo 
paulo divaricatis, rima obliqua longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
— FI. hermaphr. Sepala et petala maris. Stamina 3, petalis 
alternis opposita, mole maris, pollinifera. Ovaria 3, gynsecio 
insita, erecta, oblonga, imo tenuiter stipitata, dorso ventricosa, 
1-locularia, ovulo unico (an fertili ?) ad faciem ventralem medio 
appenso. Stylus subulatus, tenuiter elongatus, apice un- 
cinato-incurvatus. Stigma obsoletum. — FI. foem. (sec. Roxb. 
sepala et petala maris; ovaria 12, in unica serie gynophoro 
insita ; stylus subulatus ; stigma simplex) . Drupa 3-6, vel 
usque ad 12, valde gibboso-obovatse, compressse, in summo 
carpophororum ioti&em e gynsecio cylindrico enatorum suffultfe 
et articulatse, hoc modo radiatim horizontales, singulse stylo 
persistente imo proximo notat?e ; putamen oblongum, com- 
pressum, imo truncatum, hinc ultra medium utrinque sul- 
catum, coriaceum, 1-loculare, condylo interno septiformi 
transversal! ultra medium protenso, siccitate 2-marsupiatum, 
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