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to the number of cell^ as a distinctive character. Indeed his figure, 

 cited above, shows an apparently tricarpcllary ovary, 



Hemsley. 



W* BOTTING 



Fig. 1, base of petiole and stipuIeH attached to axis ; 2, base of leaf and petiolar 

 glands ; 3, tip of leaf ; 4, base of a flower-spike ; 6, a cluster of male flower-buds ; 

 b, an expanded male flower, showing the overlapping periantli-lobcs and laterally 

 exserted stamens ; 7, a female flower from which a portion of the perianth has 

 been removed, bract and glands and bractcoles ; 8, cross section of an ovary ; 9, ripe 

 fruit ; 10, a seed. — Tlie main figure and dissections drawn from Fiebrig's n. 542. 

 Fruit and se3d from Hasslcr's n. 1365, a. All except 9 enlarged. 



