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96 rarely axillary, sparingly branched. Flowers waxy-white, 1½ in. diam., shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes small, ciliate. Petals 5, linear, spreading or recurved. Staminal tube cylindric, fleshy, crenate. Style slender, exserted beyond the staminal tube; stigma discoid. Capsule large, broadly obovoid, 1 in. long, 3–4-celled. Seeds 2 in each cell, enveloped in an orange aril.—Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 64, 65; Students' Fl. 87. Hartighsea spectabilis, ''A. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par.'' xix. (1830) 228; ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 597; Raoul, Choix, 47; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 616, 617; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 39. Trichilia spectabilis, ''Forst. Prodr. n. 188; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 306.





Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or lobed, exstipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually cymose. Calyx 4–5-toothed or -lobed, free or adnate to the disc. Petals usually 4–5, free or more or less connate into a tube, valvate or rarely imbricate. Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, free or adnate to them; anthers 2-celled. Disc hypogynous, usually cup-shaped, free or adnate to the ovary or calyx. Ovary free or partly immersed in the disc, 1-celled or imperfectly 2–5-celled; style simple; stigma entire or lobed; ovules 2–3, rarely 1, pendulous from the apex of a central placenta or from the side or apex of the cavity. Fruit usually drupaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded; albumen fleshy, rarely wanting; embryo minute, radicle superior.

Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers in terminal corymbose panicles or cymes, diœcious or polygamous. Calyx minute, 5-toothed. Petals, 5, hypogynous, glabrous, valvate. Stamens 5, hypogynous, alternating with the petals; filaments filiform. Ovary 1-celled; stigma nearly sessile, entire or 3-lobed; ovule solitary, pendulous. Drupe small, fleshy; stone obtusely trigonous, grooved at the back to receive a flattened cord which passes through a perforation just below the apex, and bears the pendulous seed at its tip.

