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alartos, for example, the scales of the cone are 



orange-coloured, and 



the seeds, which show 



between them, scarlet. 



It is something like 



the colouring of the 



Spindle-berry, but on 



a huge scale, and with 



the colours of seed 



and carpel reversed. 



So far all the 

 Cycads we have de- 

 scribed have been 

 cone-bearing plants, 

 their fructifications 

 showing a general re- 

 semblance to those of 

 Coniferse, though very 

 different in detail, and 

 on the whole more 

 simply organised. 

 Though quite unlike 

 the true flowers of the 

 Angiosperms, the 

 cones have still much 

 in common with flow- Fj g . 5Microcycas calocoma; 

 ers, for cones, as well female cone, cut open to show 



. , ,, the ovules. After Caldwell. 



as typical flowers, are 



branches specially set apart to bear carpels 



