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NATURAL mSTOBY OF PLANTS. 



elongated, and strap-sliaped. The superior stamens are fertile,' each 

 possessing an extrorse two-celled anther, dehiscing longitudinally, and 

 supported on a filament of variable length, bearing at the base two 



Ilorton ia floribtinda. 



lateral stipitate glands." These are less numerous than the inner 

 stamens, which are reduced to sterile scales placed lower down the 

 inside of the receptacular cup. Towards the base of this are inserted 

 the carpels, indefinite in number. Each consists of a free ovary, 

 tapering above into a style, grooved along the inner angle and stig- 

 matiferous at the narrow apex. Within the inner angle of the ovary 

 is seen a parietal ])lacenta, bearing near its summit a suspended 



' Tliere aro f^nerally from to 10 of these * These (^lunda are vohiminoim, thick. «n»l 



(7-10, IIooK. & TliOMB. ; H.plurn r. paiiciora, flesliy, smooth ut firHt, nml ul1erwunl« flattemd 

 TOL.). i«ii<I rollctl irrt'j^iilarly into cornet*. 



