THE DICOTYLEDONS 
poid cymes, becoming condensed into small fascicles, or each 
cyme condensing into a solitary flower. 
Flowers regular or very rarely irregular from the lop-sided 
development of the stamens. Symmetry rarely hexamerous, typ- 
ically pentamerous, not infrequently reduced to tetramerous 
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Fic. 434.—Caryophyllus aromaticus. (Sayre.) 
(Clove); sepals five, six or four, aposepalous, or synsepalous at base, 
superior, and inserted around the edge of an expanded, upgrown, 
receptacular disc, varying from green and more or less expanded 
to short, thick, fleshy (Clove) or reduced to teeth (Eucalyptus) ; 
petals equal in number to the sepals, more or less petaloid and 
enlarged, rarely reduced and wanting, varying in color from 
green through greenish-yellow to white (Caryophyllus) or from 
