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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



S. chiticnsis,' the filaments of the stamens become yet more slender, 

 and are not so closely packed ; they have now the form of erect, 

 somewhat flattened, rods, with narrow elongated anther-cells 

 applied vertically along the borders of the connective, and looking 

 outwards or inwards according to the stamen we observe. In S. 

 prop'uifjita;' the filaments become very short, while their tissue 

 is thickened and swells with the receptacle, so that the andro- 

 ceum is only represented by sessile anthers, ^vith their introrse' 

 cells close together, embedded in a sort of niche hollowed out of 



Schizandra (SphtFrosfema) propinqua. 

 Fio. 184. Fig. 183. 



Male flower. Floriferous brand). 



the substance of the large, spherical, fleshy receptacle (fig. IS4). 

 In this species, as in several others, the flowers are dicocious and 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves of the adult branches (fig. IS.S). 



zandr., 17, t. v.; Hook. & Thoms., Fl. Ind., i. 

 85. — .S'. grnndijlorum Wall., ex part. 



' S.japonira A. Gkay, in Mrm. Amer.Avad., 

 vi. HHO.— MiQ.. Ann. Mus. Lut/d.-Iiat., iii. 91.— 

 Sphftroxtema ja ponifum SiKli. & ZfCC, Ahh. 

 Akiid. Munch., iv. p. ii. IHH. — Maxhmtrilzia 

 rhinenKiM Kfi'U., op. fit. As wo include in 

 tlii« gcnuH Kdilxtira japonica, wliose s|)ecific 

 name inimt lie ri-tiiined iicconlinj; to the law of 

 priority, we inunt nKnlify that of tlie8j)ecieH under 

 ronitideration and call it .S". fhinctmix. 



^ Sphterustema proquiiifjuum Ul., vj>. rit.. 



11. — Hook. & Thomb., op. cit.. i. Sij.— S.piftifo- 

 limn Bl., op. rit., Ifi, t. 4.— Hook., in Hot. Map., 

 t. 4()14. — Kadsvra propinqua Wall., Tmt. Fl. 

 XcpnI., 11, t. 15. 



^ The stamens are distinct wlien yonnp^. Later 

 on the filaments are thickened with the receptacle 

 into a 8j)here which connects all the anthem. Hut 

 next to these the tiMue of tlie former orpans 

 cainiot assume that developnu'ut, st) that a cer- 

 tiiin nundjcrof pits arc formed facing tho intmrm.' 

 antlier. 



