598 CUCURBITACER, 
stigmata corresponding to the narrow slit-shaped spaces 
between the placenta, 
3. Same laid open, shews the correspondence of the stig- 
mata with the placentz, a, a, a curious processes, form- 
ing a sort of annulus of which I am quite ignorant. 
Transverse section of the same, there is no peculiarity 
between it and other young placenta, except that the 
placentz are so approximated as to occupy all the ovary. 
Shews correspondence between stigmata and placentz, 
in the developed bud, the stigmatic lines are now conti- 
nuous, a, the line of passage inwards of the stigmatic 
tissue, and between the placenta. 
Shews the same, but in this, what I consider the true 
stigma is opposite us, a line of inflextion. ; 
| 4. Transverse section of same with reference to no. 5. 
June 16h, 1841. 
In Zanonia each stigma belongs to its own carpel, but in 
Coccina it belongs to different carpels, see Pl. DCXVII. Fig. 
VI. The margins thus stigmatic have no connection neces- 
sarily with the placenta. 
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Zanonia clavigera, Pl. DCXVII. Fig. IV. 
Flores (feminei) virides, ovarii clavata more fere Caryophil- 
lorum) articulato in pendicellum brevissimum suffultum brac- 
tea obsoleta. | 
Sepala 3, raro 4, 2 binatim composita, paullo majora, bive- 
nia, tertium univenium, semi-rotundata marcescent. Petala 
5, carnosa, ochroleuca intus papillosa cordato-ovata zestiva- 
tione valvata acutiuscula caduca. 
Stam. sterilia glandiformia 5, situ parum regularia (not 
always present, when so, they may be taken into account for 
ascertaining the situation of the sepals, to which they will be 
opposite.) s 
Ovarium obsolete angulatum glaberrimum £ inferior, 1 above 
the attachment of the floral envelopes, trigouum, et planum, 
lineis tribus ex angulis ad centrum currentibus notatum. 
