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NATURAL HISTOIiY OF PLANTS. 



leaves, are regular and hermaphrodite ; the nearly conical base 

 of the convex receptacle supports a triple perianth, above which 

 it swells into a sort of dome, covered with stamens, and bearing the 

 carpels on its slightly depressed apex (tig. 222). The calyx consists 



Uvaria {Aaimina) triloha. 

 Fio. 222. Figs. 223, 224. Fio. 228. 



Long, section of flower. Stanions, front and back vie\v(J). Long. s«H;tion of seed. 



of three' free sepals, of which two are anterior, valvate or sometimes 

 slightly imbricate in the bud. The corolla is double, each whorl 

 consisting of three free petals. The outer ones are alternisepalous, 



campnnijlora SrA( ii, op. cit., 628. — Anona 

 trilohii Ii., Spic, 7tiH. — J'orrrlia triloha I'KUrt., 

 Knchir., ii. y.'>. — Orr/iitlocarpum nrifUniini 

 Mioiix., loP. cit. — Uvaria tril<il>a Toiiii. i^ A. 

 Qbay, Fl. nf N.-Amer., \. (1838- li>). 1.'.. 



' The flowers are noriiiallv trinienm*, Imt wo 

 liu\ obsiTVi'il b«)ino flowers acciilentally dimerouii, 

 and others with three inttTior and only two ex- 

 terior petals (Ailaitwnio, vii. Wtl). 



