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232 or slightly connate at the base, their tips at length recurved. Fruit broadly oblong or nearly globose; endocarp succulent; cells 3–6, 1-seeded. Seeds compressed.

1. M. Sinclairii, Seem. in Bonplandia, x. (1862) 295.—A very handsome round-headed small tree 8–25 ft. high; trunk 6–18 in. diam.; branches stout, brittle. Leaves very large, crowded towards the ends of the branches; petiole stout, 4–15 in. long; blade 10–20 in. long or more, oblong-obovate or oblong, obtuse, slightly cordate at the base, very coriaceous, smooth and shining, strongly veined; margins entire, slightly undulate, bordered with a stout vein. Panicles stout, erect, terminal, 6–18 in. long; branches jointed on the rhachis. Male flowers sessile in clusters of 4–8, with a broad bract at the base of each cluster. Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals 4, ovate-oblong. Stamens 4; filaments slender, exserted. Female flowers irregularly crowded, with a bract at the base of each. Calyx as in the males. Petals 4–5, ovate-triangular. Abortive stamens present. Styles 4–5, free to the base. Fruit ⅓–½ in. long, broadly oblong, succulent, black and shining, 4–5-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell, compressed, bony.—''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 104; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 121; Students' Fl.'' 220. Botryodendrum Sinclairii, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 97.

Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, digitately compound; leaflets serrulate. Flowers polygamous, in small umbels arranged in a racemose manner on the branches of a spreading panicle; pedicels not articulate. Calyx-limb minutely 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Disc large, with undulate margins. Ovary 5–10-celled; styles the same number as the cells, connate below, free and spreading above. Fruit subglobose, 5–10-celled; exocarp fleshy; seeds 1 in each cell.

1. S. digitata, ''Forst. Char. Gen.'' 46.—A small tree 10–25 ft. high, with stout spreading branches. Leaves on sheathing petioles 4–9 in. long, digitately 7–10-foliolate; leaflets 3–7 in., petiolate,