TAXONOMY 
3*53 
stipulate, pinnately compound, rarely simple and entire. Inflor¬ 
escence a terminal or axillary raceme. Flowers hermaphrodite or 
rarely polygamo-dioecious, regular; sepals five to four, small; petals 
usually five to four, hypogynous; stamens generally ten to eight 
Fig. 209 .—Commiphora myrrha —Branch. ( Sayre .) 
rarely five, very rarely twenty to sixteen, inserted outside the base 
of the hypogynous disc; filaments united into a tube; carpels usually 
five to three; style simple; ovary free, usually five-to three-celled. 
Fruit a drupe ( Melia ), berry ( Vavaea ), or capsule [Cedrella). Seeds 
exalbuminous or with fleshy albumen. 
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