272 



EOX 



Flowers yellowish, in sessile axillary clusters, each 

 consisting of a terminal, central $ flower, surrounded 

 by about four to eight leaf-scales, some of which may 

 represent a perianth, the others bracts ; beneath this 



\l\,W.v/. 



uja. 



Fig. 97. Box, Buxus sempervirens, 1, flowering shoot ; 2, a male, 

 and 3, a female flower ; 4, vertical section of latter ; 5, ripe fruit opening ; 

 6, carpellary walls; 7, seed. All but 1 enlarged, p. 271 (Wo). 



are several cf flowers, each composed of four perianth- 

 scales and four superposed stamens, and in the axil of 

 one of the decussate leaves of the tuft. Pollen whitish, 

 globoid, opaque, densely beset with minute warts, about 

 37 fi in diameter. 



(ii) Perianth double, forming a calyx, and a 

 corolla, i.e. dichlamydeous; collected in 

 dense spherical heads (capitula) sessile 



