III. CALYCANTHE^E. 



FLOWERS g , regular, appearing with the leaves or earlier, terminal or axillary, often 

 sweet-scented or aromatic. CALYX coloured, segments numerous, many-seriate, im- 



C'himonanthus. Flower. 



Chiinonanthut. 



Carpel, entire and cut vertically (mag.). 



Chimonaiitltus. Flower cut vertically. 



C/t imonan th tis. Diagram . 



Chimonanlhus. 

 Flower- bud (mag.). 



bricate, all alike, or the outer bracteiform and the inner petaloid, rising from a 

 receptacular cup (calyx-tube of old botanists), short, urceolate. COROLLA 0. STAMENS 

 numerous, inserted on a fleshy ring lining the calyx-throat, outer fertile, inner 

 sterile, persistent or deciduous, free, or coherent at the base ; filaments short, subu- 

 late or filiform ; anthers extrorse, 2-celled, ovoid or oblong, adnate, dehiscence longi- 

 tudinal. OVARIES numerous, inserted on the inner wall of the receptacular cup, free, 

 1 -celled, 1-ovuled; styles as many as ovaries, terminal, simple, filiform or compressed, 

 subulate ; stigmas undivided, obtuse, terminal ; ovules solitary, or rarely two, of which 

 one is smaller, superimposed, ascending from the bottom of the cell, anatropous, 





