MONIMIACEJE. 



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Calymntlius prcBcox L.' (figs. 314-817) has a similar organization. 

 Its flowers also have a receptacle formed by a little branch, whose 

 swollen apex has been pushed in so as to make it like a club with 



Chimonanthns pracox. 



Fig. 314.. 

 Flowering branch. 



a concave end. On the whole surface of this are echelonned in 

 order, from below upwards, first of all little brownish, scarious, dry 

 bracts, the lowermost decussate, the upper ones in a spiral.- Next 



1 L., Spec, 718.— Ait., Sort. Kew., ed. 1, ii. 

 220, t. 10.— Curt., £ot. Maij., t. 466. — Lamk., 

 Ill, t. 445, fig. 2.— TuEP., 'Did. des Sc. Nat., 

 t. 235.— RoxB., Fl. Lid., ii. 672. 



^ There are more of these decussate bracts thau 

 in Calycanthus proper, but they are similarly 

 arranged, representing undeveloped leaves, and 

 we might here consider the flowers as terminal to 

 a small axillary branch with rudimentary ap- 



pendages. L. F. Beavaxs has demonstrated (loc. 

 cit.) the presence of from 12 to 18 of these de- 

 cussate scales, '• From the last of these," says 

 he, " there starts a spiral, which includes 20 or 

 22 leaves, very regularly arranged, and gradually 

 increasing in depth of colour ; and tlien from 5 

 to 7 stamens, of which the two first are larger 

 than the rest, while the last stamen is inner- 

 most." 



