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FIG. 2. Distribution of Alectryon Mahoe. Solid dots mark localities for specimens with exact data; half- 
black dots, the probable localities for specimens with incomplete data. 
conical, pedicels 0.5-3 mm. long; bracts 1-2 
mm. long, subulate, caducous; flowers probably 
polygamous; but type tree bearing only perfect 
flowers, these with calyx 2 mm. high, 2-2.5 
mm. wide, patelliform, the base truncate, val- 
vate, finely appressed sericeous-puberulent, lobes 
5, very unequal, narrowly deltoid, the largest 
about equaling the tube in length, within the 
tube attached to an annular disk; petals none; 
stamens 6-8, inserted on disk at base of pistil; 
filaments 0.4 mm. long, subulate, puberulous; 
anthers when dry 1. 1-1.3 (when fresh, -1.5) 
mm. long, elliptic-oblong, 4-lobed, 4-celled, 
reddish or yellowish; pistil 2 -celled, the base 
urceolate, well exserted, densely short sericeous; 
ovary distinctly flattened perpendicular to the 
septum, tapering into a slender style about 0.5 
mm. long; stigmas 2, strap-shaped, 1 mm. long, 
erect, later recurving; the staminate flowers with 
calyx 1.5-1. 8 mm. high, 2.6-3 mm. wide, 
kneepan-shaped, finely appressed, short seri- 
ceous, slightly asymmetric and unequally 5- 
lobed, the lobes from half as long to nearly as 
long as the tube; stamens 9-13, filaments 0.2 
mm. long, filiform; anthers 1. 1-1.3 mm. long, 
oblong; pistillode 1 mm. long, broadly ovoid, 
densely sericeous; the fruit tardily irregularly 
rupturing, either maturing only one cell with 
a remnant of the partially developed second 
cell fused to it or maturing both cells and 
appearing like twin balls; single-celled fruit 
25-43 mm. long, subglobose, smooth, dark 
brown; 2 -celled fruit 30-47 mm. long, 40-70 
mm. wide; pericarp hard woody, pale, at base 
