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. А transverse section of the same, showing the embryo within the pericarp. 
. The embryo extracted, with the exhorizal portion splitting into 4 sections. 
. The same, seen in transverse section: all nat. size. 
. A leaf of Careya orbiculata from Griflith's specimen. 
. А flower, in bud, of the same. 
. The ovary of the same, from which the petals and stamens have fallen. 
. The ovary of Careya spherica, crowned by its 4 sepals and style. 
. The monadalphous stamens, with the tube cut open, to show that the more external and more 
internal series of filaments are capillary and without anthers, the intermediate series alone 
being fertile: one of the four petals remains attached by its claw to the tube. 
А longitudinal section of the ovary, showing two of its four cells, two of the sepals, the epigynous 
disk, on the outer margin of which the staminal tube was seated, the inner margin being raised, 
leaving a hollow in the vertex round the base of the style. 
А transverse section of the same. 
А drupe, crowned by the persistent sepals and style, a quarter of its pericarp being cut away to 
show the seeds imbedded in pulp, the latter having been removed. 
One of the seeds. 
The same, after germination, copied from Dr. Thomson's drawing: the neorhiza has sprouted 
into a rootlet at one extremity, while at the other it has thrown out a long naked stemlet, 
crowned at its apex by 4 young decussating leaves: all nat. size. 
PLATE XVII. 
Stravadium acutangulum, DC. 
Figs. 1 & 2. Drawing taken from the typical specimens of a Ceylon plant in the herbarium of Hermann, 
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upon which Linnæus established his Eugenia acutangula and Gaertner his Barringtonia 
acutangula, with which numerous other species have been confounded. 
. A flower of the same, in bud. 
‚ The same, full-grown and expanded. 
The ovary crowned by the calyx: all nat. size. 
The same : magnified. 
. А longitudinal section of the same. і 
. The staminal tube cut open, showing the stamens and two of its four petals agglutinated to 
it by their claws, all having fallen off from their attachment to the disk. 
. А transverse section of the ovary, showing it to be only 2-celled : ай equally magnified. 
. The fruit, from Gaertner’s drawing. 
. The same, with half of the pericarp removed, to show the en повес send. 
. The embryo of the seed. 
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1% A transverse section of the same, showing the exhorhizal portion splitting into 4 sections: 
А longitudinal section of the same, showing the neorhiza enclosed in the exorhiza. 
all nat. size. 
А portion of the plant of Chydenanthus excelsus, with its branching panicle, upon which an 
expanded flower is seen. 
16. A flower in bud. 
