XL. ERYTHROXYLEJE. 



295 



Erythroxylon. 



Vertical section 

 of fruit. 



Erythroxylon. 



Fruit cut 

 transversely (mag.) 



Erythroxylon. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Erythroxylon. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Erythroxylon. 

 Dried fruit (mag.). 



on the aphyllous peduncles. FLOWERS , regular, solitary or geminate, or fasci- 

 cled in the axis of the leaves or stipules ; peduncles 5-angled, gradually thickened at 

 the top. CALYX persistent, 5-partite, or rarely 5-fid, imbricate. PETALS 5, hypogy- 

 nous, equal, appendiculate above their base within by a double ligule, lamella, or 

 rib, aestivation usually imbricate, rarely contorted. STAMENS 10, inserted on the 

 receptacle ; filaments flattened at the base, and connate into a short tube, filiform 

 and free above ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, ovoid-subglobose, dorsi-fixed, mobile, 



