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Section A. shows a branchlet of Patagonula bahiensis with its dichotomously 
divided panicle. 
. A flower: nat. size. 
The same: magnified. 
. The calyx. 
. The corolla. 
The same, cut open to show the position of the stamens. 
. The ovary upon the disk, with the style and stigma: all magnified on the same scale. 
. Three of the stamens before and after dehiscence : more magnified. 
. The fruit, surrounded by the 5 persistent lobes of the calyx, now greatly enlarged and horizon- 
tally expanded : nat. size. 
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Section В. A branch of Patagonula Tweediana, with its dichotomous panicle in fruit. 
Fig. 1. A persistent flower found at the base of one of the fruits: nat. size. 
2. The same magnified, and cut open, to show the position of its 4 stamens, alternate with 4 
segments. 
. The stamens shown separately : also magnified. 
. A drupe surrounded by the 4 persistent, and now much enlarged, lobes of the calyx. 
. The dry drupe detached: doth nat. size. 
. The same, with part of the calycine lobes: magnified. 
The same detached, and supported by the stipitate disk. 
. The same viewed from below, to show the two basal hollows. 
. A longitudinal section of the same showing in each cell an erect seed, fixed at its base, where the 
nourishing vessels, proceeding from the torus, perforate the nut, to reach the hilum. 
10. A transverse section of the same, showing 2 fertile and 2 sterile cells. 
11. One of the erect seeds, the chalaza confounded with the basal hilum: all magnified on the same 
scale. 
12. The same enlarged. 
13. The same, with its integument removed, exposing the exalbuminous embryo, like that of 
Auxemma. 
l4. The same viewed from above: all more magnified. 
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Prate VIII. 
Section А. А branch of Paradigma Galleottiana, with Из dichotomous corymb, drawn 
Fig. 
from an original specimen collected by Galleotti. 
l. A flower in bud. 
2. The calyx. 
3. The corolla beginning to open. 
4. The same cut open, showing how the 8 segments аге inflected in estivation, and the relative 
position of the 8 stamens. The corolla, fully grown and expanded, is seen in the drawing of the 
plant. 
5. The ovary, disk, style, and stigmata: ай nat. size. 
6. The same: magnified. 
