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Fig. 15. Development of the liypogynous flower of a Eanunculus. 

 A, a very young stage seen from above; the five sejials k' k'"" are already 

 developed in the order of the numbering, and the five petals c, alternating 

 with them, appear as humps on the flanks of the broad apical dome. 



