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not" reach to the termination of the axile one, which is 
clavate, (I have badly explained this.) 
The ovary has 6 nerves, three of which occupy one 
side, two the margins, and one the opposite side, the inter- 
venia are shortly hairy. 
The ovula except in situation much resembles those of 
Composite, and like them they are reduced to a single tegu- 
ment eog uniformly and as it were identified with the 
nucleu 
The jirih coat formed is the embryonary sac, in its 
earlier stages it is very apparent, but in the perfect seed 
adheres with the outer coat, with which it is likely to be 
confounded, it is developed from the base of the nucleus. 
It has precisely the same structure as the corresponding 
coat of Composite, which is at once known by the areola 
being occupied with masses of grumous tissue. 
. The endocarp? subsequently becomes soluble and sea 
parates with the seed, it is coriaceous inclining to bony- 
It might at first sight be mistaken for the testa, but its being 
evascular, and the presence of the raphe or the inner lining 
or envelope are sufficient proofs of its nature. 
In this Vateriana is the reverse of many and perhaps most 
Composit, in which the immediate envelope of the seed is 
derived from the embryonary sac, the testa generally separat- 
ing with the fruit, to the inner paries of which it indeed 
adheres. The cotyledons are alternate to tbe raphe.— 
The style has three vascular fascicles. 
Is not the double pappus analogous to the involucel of 
certain Dipsacez. 
he assertion, that Gentianee have hypogynous disk 
is not correct, I find in a species of Gentiana common 
in Bootan, that it is a good deal developed, and distinctly 
divided into 5 1obes, which lobes as might be expected alter- 
mate with the fertile stamina or in other words are opposite 
to the segments of the corolla, we may hence expect to 
oy, find decandrana Gentianeg. 
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