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Order CCLXI. CRESCEN I lAI 





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Duowows.— Sign mial JSxogau, 

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frees of small size, w itli alternate 

 or clustered simple leaves without 

 stipules. Flowers growing out oi 

 the old -[••ins or branches. Calyx 

 . undivided, eventually splitting 

 into irregular pieces. Corolla mono- 



petalous, irregular, - what 2-hp- 



1" d, with an imbricati d .> stivation. 

 Stamens I, growing on the corolla, 

 didynamonSj with the rudimenl 

 u fifth between the posterior pair, 

 which are the longest ; anthei 

 bbed, bursting longitudinally. < Ivarj 

 . surrounded by a yellow annular 

 •lisk, I -celled, composed of an ante- 

 rior and posterior carpellar) I 

 with 2 or I equidistant parietal pla- 

 centa?, which sometimes meet and 

 produce additional cells ; ovules 00, 

 horizontal ; style 1 ; stigma of two 

 plates. Fruit woody, not splitting, 

 containing a multitude of i 

 amygdaloid seeds buried in the pulp 

 of the placentae; -kin leathery,! 

 Embryo straight, without albumen, 

 witli plano-convex fleshy cotyledons, 



and at) 



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until 

 which thi 



fruit 



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tti«< Rtrurtu >• of its calyx, in its four distinct | 



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