MONIMIACE^. 



thick, in this case seems to remain entire ; but more frequently it 

 tears vertically into four, five, or six equal or unequal strips, which 



Tamlourissa elliptica. 



Fig. 346. Fig. 347. 



Female flower (3.). Longitudinal section of female flower. 



then spread like a star, hearing on their inner surface the stamens 

 dehiscing and shedding their pollen (fig. 344). 



The female flower is fig-shaped ; its walls are thicker than in the 



Tamhourissa elliptica. 



male with the apex usually more 

 depressed, forming a widely 

 open terminal " eye." The open- 

 ing of this sac-like recep- 

 tacle is cut up into projecting 

 festoons, usually of very unequal 

 sizes and somewhat inflexed. 

 These ill-marked lobings are the 

 vestiges of the divisions of the 

 perianth, and are better seen 

 when very young. The sac is 

 lined by an indefinite number 

 of carpels, extending from the 

 centre to a variable height on 

 its walls. Each carpel consists 

 of a one-celled ovary, tapering into a short style, dilated and stig- 

 matiferous at the apex. In the inner angle of the ovary is seen a 

 placenta bearing a single anatropous ovule,' whose microp3'le looks 



liiilP 



Fig. 348. 

 Part of the gynseceum (^j ). 



This ovule has two coats. The exostome is the orifice of the endostome projectingslightly out- 

 traversed by a short tube, at the top of which is side. The sharp apex fits into the base of thu'tube. 



