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E. Icmrina' (figs. 302-305), the taller of the two, has a thicker woodier 

 trunk and axillary flowers. The other, E. BenncUU' (figs. 300, 301), 

 developes like a perennial herb ; it has a running stock from which 

 arise almost herbaceous aerial branches, each ending in a pedun- 

 culate more or less drooping flower. Beneath this are several 



Eupomatia laurina. 



Fio. 302, 

 Expanded flower. 



I'iG. 303. 

 Longitudinal section of Howlt. 



Fig. 305. 

 Longitudinal section of fruit. 



bracts, which gradually become smaller as they are higher up, and the 

 arrangement of which is continuous with that of the leaves. The last 

 one is inserted on the very edge of the receptacular cup, and is 

 reduced to a sheath which covers in the sexual organs in the bud like 

 a hood, and on the expansion of the flower falls ofi" by its circular 



1 R. Be., loc. cit. — F. Muell., loc. cit., n. 1 

 (nee Hook.). In a single axil there arc two 

 (more rarely three) flowers placed one above the 

 other, or as many leaf-buds with superposed 

 leaves. The peduncle of each flower bears one 

 or several alternate bracts below the one that is 

 so much developed to surround the whole flower. 

 E. laurina is a rather large shrub with urceolate 

 fruits, and coniiivent petaloid staminodes shorter 

 than the fertile stamens. 



- F. MuELL., loc. eit., n. 2. — E. laurina Hook., 

 Bot. Mag., t. -1848 (nee K. Bn.). In this the 

 staminodes are richly provided with glands, and 

 longer and broader than in the preceding species, 

 and on anthesis spread more or less over and 

 beyond the fertile stamens. The fruit is turbi- 

 nate. The roots with which the stock is pro- 

 vided swell here and there into reservoirs of nutri- 

 tive juices owing to the development of their 

 cortical parenchyma. 



