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NATIVE BRITISH ORCHIDACEiE 



tropical in general aspect which has yet been studied in the Northern hemisphere 

 Thus the fruits of Ntpadttes, the fossil representative of the Nipa palm, now restricted 

 to Indo-Malaya, are found in the London clay (Miocene) at the mouth of the Thames, 



APOSTASIACEAE. 



s^^Sbigma, 



Sla-m, 



MONANDKAE. DIANDRAE. 



Text-fia ? A' a\ a\ Fertile anthers. Stam. Staminode. St. Stigma. 

 O Section of o;ary. Sepals and petals omitted as unessential from these 

 diagrams. In loweV left-hand figure .■ and a' are reduced to staminodes. 



and in similar beds on the south coast of England, as weU as in Central Europe^ 

 Similarly the cinnamon {Cmnamomium) is now confined to Indo-Malaya, but m the 

 Oligocene and Miocene periods was widely distributed in Europe, includmg the south 



I Rendle, Classification of Flomring Plants, i, 260. 



