496 ORDER DRTICE.E, OR NETTLE TRIBE; BREAD-FRUIT. 



order, a part are stamineous and a part pistilline ; there are here, 



besides, some others 

 which are complete, 

 though the pistil of 

 these is not fully de- 

 veloped. The perianth 

 is divided into four 

 lobes ; and opposite to 

 the base of each arises 

 a stamen. This last 

 character is common 

 to the order ; but the 

 number of segments of 

 the perianth differs. 

 The pistil consists of 

 one ovary containing 

 a single seed; it is 

 surmounted by a single 

 style, with a stigma 

 composed of a bunch 

 of filaments like a 

 brush ; in other spe- 

 cies there are very 



A ^ r : * . ' " H C WW1T commonly two styles. 



The fruit contains but 

 a single seed, and is 

 closely wrapped round 

 by the perianth, which 

 does not fall off. 



673. The greatest 

 peculiarity in the or- 

 gans of fructification, 

 by which the Bread- 



F,o. 177. -A, section of cluster of STAMINEOUS fruit Fi & &C "> is dis " 

 FLOWERS ; B, single flower; C, three pistilline flowers, tinguished, is not that 



enlarged> the flowers are dif- 



ferent in themselves, but that they are crowded together upon or 



FIG. 176. BRANCH OF BREAD-FRUIT TUBE, bearing 

 r, c, clusters of pistilline flowers ; b, clusters of stami- 

 eous flowers. 



