24:4: 



PLANT STRUCTURES 



The flowers are usually very simple, often being naked, 

 with two to nine stamens, and one to four carpels (Fig. 



Fio. 2'2b. Jack-iu-the-piilpit (Arisivma). showiiij,' tlie overarcliing spathos; in one 

 case a side view shows the naked tip of the projecting spadix.— After Atkinson. 



197). They are inconspicuous and closely set upon the 

 lower part of a fleshy axis, which is naked above and often 



