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celled; ovary abortive. Female flower: Stamens abortive; ovary oblong, with 
a dilated stigma. Fruit, a berry, one-seeded. 
GENuUs 2. Beriscumiepria, Nees. 
Large trees, with alternate leaves. Flowers paniculate, perfect: perianth 
small, six-lobed ; stamens, twelve, in two series, the outer series opposite the 
perianth-lobes, fertile with introrse anthers; the inner series comprises three fertile 
extrorse anthers, with glands opposite the base of the filaments, and three with 
abortive anthers; ovary one-celled; style short. Fruit, an oblong or ovoid 
drupe. 
ORDER 32. PROTEACEA, 
Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs. Leaves scattered, rarely opposite or verti- 
cillate, usually coriaceous and toothed. Flowers bisexual: perianth of four 
segments, usually coherent below, valvate; stamens, four or, rarely, three, 
epiphyllous or, rarely, hypogynous; hypogynous glands, one to four, sometimes 
absent; ovary superior, one-celled, sessile or stipitate; style filiform; stigma 
simple; ovules, one or more. Fruit, an indehescent nut or drupe or samara, or 
a one- or two-valved follicle or capsule, one-celled or incompletely two-celled ; 
seed solitary, ovoid or globose or compressed or winged, without endosperm, 
embryo straight, radicle inferior. 
GENuSs I. PrErRsoonta, Smith. 
Shrubs:or trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary racemes or spikes: 
perianth segments at first tubular, ultimately spreading; stamens inserted near 
the middle of the segments; hypogynous glands, four; style slender; ovules, 
one or two. Fruit, a drupe; nut one- or two-celled; cotyledons, two to eight. 
GENUS 2. KwnicutTia, Brown, 
Lofty trees, with stout branches. Flowers in dense racemes: perianth 
segments at first coherent, tubular, ultimately separating and forming spiral 
coils; stamens, four, inserted near the tips of the segments; anthers linear; 
hypogynous glands, four; ovary sessile, narrowed into a long rigid style; stigma 
vertical, stigmatiferous at the apex; ovules, one to four. Fruit, a woody follicle; 
seeds winged at the tip. | 
ORDER 33. SANTALACEA, 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes parasitic on the roots or branches of 
other plants. Leaves usually alternate, entire, exstipulate. Flowers bisexual 
or unisexual, usually small: perianth exceeding the ovary, three- to six-lobed ; 
stamens, three to six, inserted on the perianth-lobes, filaments very short ; ovary 
inferior or superior, one-celled; style short; stigma lobed; ovules, two to five, 
pendulous from an erect central placenta. Fruit, a nut or drupe, indehiscent, 
one-seeded, with fleshy endosperm ; embryo small; radicle superior. 
Genus 1. Fusanus, Linne. 
Shrubs or trees with opposite or alternate leaves, and axillary panicles or 
racemes shorter than the leaves. Perianth-tube superior, campanulate, longer 
than the ovary, four- or five-lobed; disc four- or five-lobed; stamens, four or 
five, inserted on the perianth-lobes, with, a tuft of hairs behind each stamen, 
filaments short; ovary inferior, with an erect placenta; ovules, two or three; 
style conical, short ; stigmas, two or three, minute, terminal. Fruit, a globular 
drupe, crowned by the remains of the perianth-lobes, succulent or fleshy, one- 
seeded. 
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