Rinorea gracilipes Engl.

A Flowering branch. B Flower cut lengthwise. C Stamen from front and back. D Cross-section of ovary. E Group of fruits. F Fruit.

FLACOURTIACEAE.

FLOW. PL. AFR.

Pl. 104.

J. Fleischmann del.

Flacourtia Ramontchi L’Hér.

A Flowering branch. B Male flower cut lengthwise. C Female flower. D Female flower cut lengthwise. E Cross-section of ovary.

the petals, hypogynous or nearly so. Filaments short. Anthers turned inwards; connective usually prolonged. Ovary superior, sessile, 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentas. Ovules inverted. Style simple. Fruit a loculicidal capsule with an elastically seceding exocarp. Seeds albuminous.—Genera 4, species 100. (Plate 103.)