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filiform, free or connate at the base into a short stipe; anthers ovoid, 
erect, two-celled, extrorse, showing longitudinal dehiscence. 
Pistillate flowers in ovoid or ovoid-globular catkins. Gynaecium 
of two united carpels on a bract. Ovary sessile, unicellular, sub- 
Fig. 132. — Two Myrica cerifera trees growing in a field near a brackish swamp 
at Rio Grande, N. J. Photographed by author July 26, 1914. 
tended by two lateral bracteoles which persist under the fruit, or 
by eight linear subulate bracteoles, accrescent, and forming a lacini- 
ate involucre inclosing the fruit; styles short and dividing into 
two elongated style arms which bear stigmatic surfaces on their 
inner face; ovule orthotropous, solitary with a basilar placenta and 
