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very much—so much so, indeéd, that cull sometimes give, seen in 
cross-section, the impression of being fused into a septum, and in C. cir- 
f the ovary, the result being a perforated septum. In C. orien- 
talts this fusion has gone a step far become complete. The 
species is, however, in other respects so closely allied to C. cymulosa 
that there can be no doubt whatever about its pgenasls with this 
eek the complete or incomplete partition of the ovary —e evi- 
dently of no great taxonomic value in this group.—Orro Sra 
Fig. 1, a flowerbud ; 2, a flower in longitudinal section; 3, part of calyx, seen from 
within; 4, ananther; 6, pistil; 6, cross-section of ovary. All enlarged. 
