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extremity to the first joint, and red from the first to the second joint. 
Some after a more simple fashion, blacken the ends of the fingers and 
the whole of the inside of the hand. 1,; 
AXI. — IiOASACEiE. 
Bristly undershrubs or (climbing) herbs. 
Flowers in cymes, regular, dichlamydeous, hermaphrodite. Flower- 
tube adnate to the ovary, 10-ribbed; limb 5-lobed ; lobes persistent. 
Petals 10, in two rows, perigynous. Stamens indefinite, arranged in 
5 bundles ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, opening longitudinally; stami- 
nodes petaloid or none. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, free at the apex ; 
style filiform. Ovules solitary in each cell of the ovary (in the 
African- Arabian species), anatropal, pendulous from the apex of 
the cavity. 
Fruit dry, 1 — 3-celled, 1 — 3-seeded. Seed exalbuminous ; embryo 
straight ; radicle superior ; cotyledons flat, thick. 
Genera 13. Species about 200. 
Distribution . — All of tropical and subtropical America, except the 
monotypic genus Kissenia. 
1, Kissenia R. Br. 
An undershrub, covered with rough bristles. Leaves exstipulate, 
alternate, stalked, irregularly pinnately lobed. 
Flowers in terminal leafy cymes. Flower-tube bristly, 10-ribbed ; 
limb 5-parted ; lobes leafy, oblong, persistent, and enlarged in fruit. 
Petals 10, deciduous, attached in two rows to the throat of the flower- 
tube, 5 outer alternate with the sepals, roundish or obovate, concave 
slightly keeled at the back ; 5 inner smaller, opposite to the sepals, 
linear-oblong, bent in the middle. Stamens numerous, 65 — 75 fertile 
in five phalanges, inserted with the petals ; filaments thread-like ; 
anthers didymous. Ovary inferior, 3-celled. Ovules 1 in each cell 
pendulous from the apex. Style filiform, spirally twisted near the top. 
Fruit bristly, 10-ribbed, surmounted by the persistent calyx-lobes, 
2— 3-celled with fibrous partitions. Seed solitary in each compartment 
compressed or slightly convex on both surfaces ; testa membranous, 
veined, rough; embryo straight; cotyledons leafy, thick; radicle 
very short, superior. 
Species 3 . 
1 Lane, E. W. The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. London, Dent 
6 Co., pp. 39 — 40. 
