CONDENSED TYPES 



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of green bracts 

 below, but dif- 

 fers from the 

 latter in that 

 the individual 

 flowers are per- 

 fect having well 

 developed sepals. 

 The Teazel, DIP- 

 SAC us, has also 

 a head of flowers, 

 with bracts be- 

 low, just like that 

 of the COMPO- 

 SITE, but the 

 flowers open first 

 in a ring about 

 the middle of the 

 spike, about half 

 way between the 

 centre of the head 

 or summit of the 

 spike, and the 

 circumference or 

 base, and it is 

 FIG - 47 therefore prob- 



A SINGLE CYME FROM A BUNCH OF IXORA ably of a CVniOSe 



FLOWERS nature really. 



The common 

 Below diagram snowing the arrangement ~ , . 



of the flowers. Numbers denote the order of bcablus > 3CABI- 



development. OSA, belongs to 



A typical DICHASIAL cyme. the same family. 

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