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The affinity of Kolkwitzia lies clearly with Abelia, from which it 
differs in the paired and ultimately coalescent flowers, in the production 
of the receptacle into a slender and rather long stalklike tube, the not 
enlarged, although eet sepals, and the presence of numerous 
ovules in all the cells of the ovary or at least in two of them, although 
only one in each fruit develops into a seed. The corky ribs of the . 
fruits with their awl- or horn-like points are, as Mr. Hemsley has pointed 
out, the indurated bracts which in the course of maturation are carried 
up on the growing i aan whilst the decurrent bases go to build 
up the tibs.—O, Strap 
Fig. 1, pair of flowers; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamens; 4, style; 5, longi- 
tudinal section of receptac acle ; 6, cross-section of same with one cell empty ; 
ao of another receptacle, with a row of ovules in the third cell. AW 
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