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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



inner faces of the sepals, while in the bottom of the sinuses between 

 them are inserted the petals. Internal to these, a little lower down, 

 are inserted five superposed stamens ; there are also five others, 

 larger, placed higher up, and superposed to the sepals, inserted in 



Quillaja Saponaria. 



Fig. A-n. 

 Hranch. 



Fig. 4«5. 

 liongitiuliiial section of hcrininihroilitc flower 



the little notches at the apices of ihe lobes of the disk. In both 

 sets each consists of a free tapering filament, inllexod in the bud, 

 and bearing a versatile, introrse, two-celled anther, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. In the centre of the flower the receptacle rises up into a 

 little cone,' bearing on its convexity five carpels superposed to the 



' The ox'utenco of tliiii cono reprfaoiitiiig tlio tlmt they nppoiir united below into a ungle 

 organic apex of the rocfptnde, pnMluceH a very nmny -celled ovary, nearly n* in tVpiVdra Z,iW/ry- 

 oblique insertion of the biiHo <if the nirpelH, mo mia, and several allied H]M.'ciei. 



