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point was a third anther disposed introrsely on a short fila¬ 
ment, and above this, terminating the connate group, was 
the outermost and fourth anther, introrse, on a filament 2 mm. 
long. 
One flower contained six groups of 4, and two groups of 
2 stamens ; the fusion of the filaments suggests a relation¬ 
ship to D. pruriens and D. Embryopteris ; anthers white 
or brown, glabrous, apiculate ; filaments glabrous, except 
near anther. (See pi. XIII., fig. 6.) 
Pistil rudimentary, green flattened hairy disc. 
Female flowers (see pi. XIII., figs. 2 and 3) are solitary, 
subsessile, in axil of foliage leaf or caducous bract ; bracts 2, 
green, pubescent, forming on the short peduncle an opposite 
pair at right angles to antero-posterior axis. 
Calyx green, cup-shaped, 3 mm. deep, with horizontal or 
descending segments ; segments 3-4, 9 mm. long, acute 
apex, glabrous or nearly so. 
Corolla yellowish-white, total length 15 mm., throat wide ; 
segments 3-4, rotate, broad, 9 mm. long, rounded apex, 
recurved when mature. 
Staminodes 8, flattened, epipetalous, opposite and alternate 
to corolla segments ; anthers 1-5 mm. long, yellow or white 
deltoid, apiculate, hairy apex ; filaments white, glabrous, 
broad base, 2 mm. long. 
Pistil with green or yellow style ; stigmas 4-5-lobed ; 
ovary green, glabrous, 8-celled. 
Fruit depressed, globose or subglobose, apiculate, glabrous, 
green ; fruiting calyx forms an enlarged shallow woody cup 
lined with pedicellate glandular and also unicellular hairs ; 
the margin becomes recurved and segments project out¬ 
wards and downwards. (See pi. XIII., figs. 7 and 8.) 
Seeds 2-8 in each fruit, flattened or wedge-elliptical in 
shape, 14 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, 3 mm. thick ; 'testa brown 
or black ; endosperm hard, copious, equable ; embryo white, 
5-6 mm. long. (See pi. XVIII., fig. 8.) 
Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons persistent, epicotyledonary 
system delayed developmentally ; cotyledons sessile or 
