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BOTANY 



PART II 



branches. The male flowers, situated towards the base, have a membranous calyx 

 of 4-5 sepals, enclosing the branched stamens ; the end of each branch bears a 

 theca. The female flowers, nearer the summit of the inflorescence, have 3-f> sepals 

 and a large tripartite ovary. The latter is covered with warty prickles, and bears 

 three large, bifid, red stigmas. In each loculus of the fruit is a mottled seed with 

 a whitish caruneula. Mallotut 



Kii;. i',63. Ricinux i-'i 



-iitly iviluct-d. (After HAILLON.) 1'oisoxoi'S and OFFICIAL. 



OFFICIAL. Croton Eleuteria (Bahamas) yields CASCAKILLA. C. tiglium (East 

 Indies), OLE CM CKOTOMS. OLEUM KK-IXI, Castor Oil, is obtained from Jliciniis 

 communis. 



The Callitrichaceae are a small family of water plants, with naked, unisexual 

 flowers. Stamen 1, carpel 1. 



Order 15. Sapindinae 



This order im-hidcs trees and shrubs of very different appearance, with cyclic 

 flowers. The latter exhibit reduction in the perianth, androecium, and gynaeceum. 



