The QUASSIA SIMARUBA. 81 



EXPLANATION OF the PLATES. 



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Quassia Simaruba Mas. 



1. A flower of its natural fize. 



2. The fame magnified. 



3. The calix of the natural fize. 



4. The fame magnified. 



5. The corolla. 



6. The ten flamina. 



7. Two (lamina, the infide of one, the outfide of another, pre- 



fented to view. 



8. The flefliy mafs in the centre of the flower. 



9. The fame magnified, to fliew in what manner the ten fta- 



mina and fquamse are placed. 



PLATE II, 



Quassia Simaruba Feminea. 



I. 2. 3. 4. The fame as in the male flowers. 



5. The piftillum. 



6. The ftyle. 



7. The ten imbricated fquamae-. 



8. One pericarpinm or drupa. 



9. The horizontal fedion of the fame. 



10. The nut. 



II. A perpendicular fedlion of the fame. 

 12. The nucleus or kernel. 



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