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talSj six sterile stamens opposite the sepals, the filament being 
much compressed and dilated considerably towards the apex, 
which is truncated, bearing a cup-shaped gland immersed in each 
angle : the putamen is cuneately orbicular, greatly compressed, 
with an excentral, concave, scutiform impression ; around the 
hippocrepiform cell it has a very broad wing, formed of five flat 
plates (one peripheral, two lateral on each side), cleft into 
pergamineous or soft teeth, somewhat imbricated and radiating 
in a direction parallel with the faces, and from which the meso- 
carpal pulp, in which they are imbedded, is with difficulty sepa- 
rated*. I have not seen a perfect seed ; but Dr. Mueller states 
(FI. Austral, i. 56) that the embryo is in the axis of the albumen, 
with narrow cotyledons closed against each other — a definition 
scarcely comprehensible ; but, as he refers his plant to Cocculus, 
we may interpret his meaning to be that the embryo has incum- 
bent cotyledons imbedded in albumen, as in that genus; and on 
this evidence I have placed Legnephora among the Platygonea, 
after Tristichocalyx. 
Legnephora, nob. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 6, biseriata, 
subsequalia, elliptica, vix acuta, extus pilosa, 3 exteriora paulo 
angustiora, sestivatione imbricata. Petala 6, squamiformia, 
sepalis opposita et 6-plo breviora, cuneato-rotundata, lateribus 
glanduloso-incrassatis, glabra, carnosula. Stamina 6, petalis 
sequilonga et opposita; filamenta teretia, sursum gradatim 
incrassata; antherce subglobosse, filamento duplo latiores, 
dorso aflSxae, introrsae, 2-loculares, loculis connectivo angusto 
paululo excurrente sejunctis, utrinque rima transver§ali 2- 
valvatim dehiscentibus. — Fcem. Sepala ut in masc. Petala 
nulla. Stamina sterilia 6, sepalis opposita et duplo breviora, 
cuneato-linearia, apice dilatata et truncata, subcanaliculata, 
cum glandhla concava in quoque angulo semiimmersa. Ova- 
ria 3, gibboso-globosa, pilosula, 1-locularia, 1-ovulata. Stylus 
brevissimus aut obsoletus. Stigma cordato-orbiculatum, con- 
cavum, indivisum, horizontaliter reflexum. Frupce 3, vel 
aboi’tu pauciores, compresso-globosse, carnosae, stigmate basin 
versus notatae; jow/amere cuneato-orbiculare,valde compressum, 
tenuiter osseum, utraque facie carina hippocrepiformi promi- 
nula circa excavationem excentricam obovatam scutiformem 
signatum, carina marginali latissima, e laminis pergamineis 5 
(quarum 1 peripherica, et utrinque laterales 2) profunde 
fimbriatim incisis, laciniis irregularibus, parallele radianti- 
bus et ad pulpam carnosam arete adhaerentibus, 1-loculare, 
loculo hippocrepico aut subcyclico ; condylus omnino internus. 
* Hence the generic name, from Xiyvr] {fimbria), (pepa (fero). 
