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perigynous; stamens numerous, free, exceeding the petals ; style filiform; stigma 
small; ovary completely or imperfectly two- or three-celled ; ovules, several in 
each cell. Fruit, a berry crowned with the calyx limb; seeds reniform or 
rounded, with a bony testa, embryo small, curved terete, cotyledons small, 
radicle long. 
Genus 4. Eucenta, Linneé. 
Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves. Flowers perfect or unisexual, closely 
resembling those of Myrtus in structure : ovary two- or three-celled ; ovules two 
or more in each cell. Fruit, a drupe or berry; embryo thick, fleshy; radicle 
small; cotyledons more or less inseparable. 
Orper 16. ONAGRARIEE. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, exsti- 
pulate. Flowers usually perfect: calyx superior, tubular, often coloured, and 
frequently exceeding the ovary, the limb two- to five-lobed, valvate; petals as 
many as the sepals or, rarely, absent, free, inserted at the throat of the calyx on 
a flat or annular disc, contorted; stamens free, as many or twice as many as the 
petals; ovary inferior, two- to four-celled, many ovuled; style filiform; stigma 
capitate or two- to four-lobed. Fruit, a berry or capsule, one- to four-celled ; 
seeds usually numerous, without endosperm. 
GeNus I. Fucusia, Lianne. 
Prostrate or erect shrubs or small trees, with opposite or alternate leaves. 
Flowers usually pendulous: calyx-tube coloured, with four large spreading lobes; 
petals, four or, rarely, absent, inserted at the throat of the corolla; stamens, eight, 
inserted with the petals; ovary inferior, crowned with the disc, four-celled; 
ovules numerous; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit, a berry, four-celled, 
many seeded. 
Orprer 17%, ARKALIACEA, 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate or, rarely, opposite, usually 
exstipulate. Flowers perfect or unisexual, often polygamous: calyx-tube adnate 
with the ovary; limb undeveloped or three- to five-toothed; petals, five or 
absent, valvate or imbricate, epigynous; stamens, five, or, rarely, ten or more, 
inserted on the margin of an epigynous disc; ovary inferior, two- to fifteen- 
celled, crowned by the disc ; styles short, subulate, recurved; ovules pendulous 
in each cell. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, compressed, or terete, or angular, two- 
or many-celled; cells one-seeded; seed flat, with copious endosperm, embryo 
small. 
Genus I. Pawnax, Linn, 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, digitate, or, rarely, simple, sometimes 
polymorphic, stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers moncecious or dicecious, or poly- 
gamous, articulated on the tips of the pedicels: calyx-margin prominent or with 
five small teeth; petals, five, epigynous or absent; disc broad; ovary inferior, 
two- to four-celled, sometimes compressed or ribbed, coriaceous or fleshy. 
GENUS 2. PsEuDOPANAX, C. Koch. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves often polymorphic. Flowers and fruit with the 
general structure of Panax, but the ovary is usually five-celled, with five styles, 
connate into a cone with the tips reflexed. Fruit, five- or, rarely, four-seeded, 
spherical, fleshy. | 
GENUS 3. MeEryta, Forster. 
Small dicecious trees, branches stout, crowned with a cluster of very large 
leaves. Flowers in terminal panicles. Male: Calyx three- to five-lobed or 
