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describe or to understand. The calyx is said 

 by modern botanists to consist of five sepals, 

 three of which are green and two lilac, these 

 last being the part that resembles the standard 

 of the Sweet Pea. The corolla is also said to 

 consist of five petals, two of which stand erect, 

 and the other three grow together to form the 

 keel. The latter have their upper part cut into 

 a kind of crest, like that of the Mignonette. 

 Below the crest, the united petals form a kind 

 of hood, under which are arranged the eight 

 stamens, four on each side. The stamens 

 themselves are as remarkable as the other parts 

 of the flower ; the filaments grow together into 

 a thin kind of leaf, and each anther has but one 

 cell, and opens by a pore at the apex. The 

 pistil is also very curiously formed, as the style 

 and stigma have the appearance of a gaping 

 monopetalous corolla. The fruit is a flat two- 

 celled capsule, which, when ripe, opens by two 

 lips, separating from each other, and showing a 

 seed within each cell. Even the seeds are not 

 like other seeds, for each has a large white pro- 

 tuberance at one end, called a corancula. 



ORDER XXIII. TREMANDRE^. 



Slender New Holland shrubs, with the habit 

 of Heaths, rarely met with in British gardens. 



