MERYTA SINCLAIRII. 247 
lateral veins; margin slightly waved, sometimes with a few large crenatures, and 
surrounded with a stout marginal nerve. Flowers in terminal panicles; branches 
jointed to the rhachis. Male flowers sessile, in tetramerous clusters ; sepals, 
four, valvate, ligulate, ultimately flexuous; stamens, four, inserted beneath a cor- 
rugated glandular disc. Female flowers solitary or crowded ; calyx-tube adnate 
with the ovary; sepals, five or six; ovary three- to six-celled; styles, three to 
six, short, united below, tips recurved; four staminodia are usually present. 
Fruit oblong, three- to six-celled, black, shining, each cell containing one hard 
bony compressed seed. 
ExpLaNaTION OF PLare CXXI. 
Meryta Sinclairii, Seemann. Male flowering specimen, natural size. 
2. Female flower, with petals removed. 3. Female flower. 4. Portion of a 
fruiting panicle. 5. Transverse section of a fruit. 
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