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style; hence the canal must be large, the foramen looks 
upwards, and raphe is next the axis. 
In Cyperacez, the styles are much more highly organised, 
each has a dorsal vessel, the stigmatic surface is confined to 
the inner surface, prolonged beyond the apex ? 
Alhagi maurorum, has a simple terminal stigma, the 
whole orifice of the canal being stigmatic, the outer parts 
of the margin with oblong papille, from the centre of which 
projects an oblong mass of stigmatic tissue. P]. 33.— Fig. 4. 
Veins 3, one dorsal ceasing a little below the stigma, 2 margi- 
nal ceasing 2-3 up the style, or nearly allequal. Altogether 
. analogous to the Lotoid structure. 
In Bassia, the many styles are intimately "müed) the 
style has many vascular fascicles, arranged in a single series 
round the central tissue, which is not perforated. The 
stigma is terminal, punctiform, it is exserted, long, ante 
antheria or before the dehiscence of the anthers. The tube 
of the corolla will after the bursting of the anthers, be found 
loaded with pollen, which can only get chance access to the 
stigma. Hence perhaps the deflexion of the pedicels. 
In the hairy ovary, calyx, consolidation of the corolla by 
intimate union with the filaments, and the exsertion of the 
style, it approaches Edgeworthia. 
'The decurrence of the filaments down the corolla tube, 
shews that this is corolla not torus? Stamina in about 3 series, 
Coroll 2 series. 9. Inner rows of stamens irregular, the 
upper and outer rows are in the sinuses of the petals. 
In Lindenbergia, the ovary has several fascicles, the 
dorsal only carried up, terminating clavate from below the 
stigma which is papillose, and obscurely bilobed. 
Polygonum, has three terminal stigmata, and 3 vessels, 
l dorsal vessel to each carpel. 
Croton like Trewia, has a bilobed style, with highly deve- 
loped cellulo-papillose stigmatic surfaces. 
In Pardanthus Chinensis the angles of the ovarium, or 
carpellary leaves, are opposite to the outer and larger divi- 
sions of the perianth : Pl. 34.—Fig. 6. a, estivation, b, bract. 
Vascularity of the ovary 6, 3 dorsal, 3 placentary of the base 
