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itself. The female flowers are shut up thus 

 in a sort of harem, all together, the entrance 

 to which is guarded by the males. 



I have not the opportunity of meeting a 

 Dorstenia here, but I have cut a huge sun- 

 flower in half and drawn it as it partakes of 

 a similar arrangement, for if you could close 

 up this sunflower on to its centre something 

 very like a fig would result. Anyhow it can- 

 not be the colour or beauty of the flower that 



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