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‚ А full-grown fruit, from a specimen in the Museum of the Linnean Society. 
- A longitudinal section of the same, showing the form of its 4-winged pericarp, 
MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACE Ж. 115 
. The ovary surmounted by the calycine lobes and style, the staminiferous tube having fallen off. 
. А longitudinal section of the ovary, disk, and style, showing two of its four cells. 
. The drupe according to the shape and size given by Rheede, Roxburgh, and Hermann ; a quarter 
of its pericarp is eut away, to show the single enclosed seed : all nat size. 
. А portion of the raceme of Butonica Rumphiana with the flowers in bud. 
. À flower in bud on its pedicel. 
. The petals and stamens of the same, expanded, and agglutinated to the monadelphous tube, which 
has fallen from the external margin of the disk. 
. A longitudinal section of the ovary surmounted by the calycine lobes, disk, and style. 
. А transverse section of the 4-celled ovary. | 
‚ The drupe, according to ће dimensions given by Rumphius, surmounted by the persistent caly- 
cine lobes; a quarter of its pericarp is cut away, to show the single enclosed seed. 
. A longitudinal section of the embryo, showing the neorhiza enclosed within the exorhiza : a// 
nal. size. 
PLATE XIV. 
. А portion'of the raceme of Butonica rubra, with flowers in bud, and another expanded. 
. À drupe of the same, according to the shape given in the diminished drawing of Rheede, but 
enlarged to its proper dimensions. 
. А transverse section of the same, showing within the pericarp the neorhiza of the embryo sur- 
rounded by its exorhiza: all nat. size. 
. A flower in bud of Butonica terrestris, with its calyx entirely closed. 
. The same fully expanded, as seen from below, showing the 3 ruptured lobes of the calyx, the 4 
petals, and the stamens. 
. The stamens united into a monadelphous tube, which is cut open, showing two of the four 
petals agglutinated to it by their claws. 
. A longitudinal section of the 4-celled ovary, with two of the cells and their suspended ovules, 
two of the lobes of the calyx, the epigynous disk, from the outer margin of which the staminal 
tube has fallen off, the inner margin being raised, with the style seated in the hollow vertex. 
- À transverse section of the same. : 1 : 
. А drupe of the same, according to the dimensions given by Rumphius (it appears amaller in 
the diminished drawing of his plate 115) : a// nat. size. 
- А young bud of Butonica alata, with the calyx quite entire. - 
. The same somewhat grown, with the calyx beginning to split into 4 lobes. | : th i 
. A longitudinal section of the same, showing two of its four cells, the epigynous disk with its 
inner margin elevated. 
its single seed 
enclosing the embryo. 
The embryo extracted, with its exorhiza surrounding the neorhiza, and easily separable from it : 
all nat. size. i © 
The ovary, disk, calycine lobes, and style of Butonica rotata. ; : : b 
А fruit of the same, shown in longitudinal section, according to the dimensions given by 
: Sonnerat. 
18. A transverse section of the same, including the seed : ай nat. size. 
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