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CLXXI. SELAGINE^E. 



S. cintrea. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Stlago. 

 Calyx (mag.). 



Stlago cinerta. 

 Corolla and audrcecium laid open (mag.). 



Setago. 

 Stamen (mag.). 



&ltiyo corymlosa. 



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Jlebenstreitia. 



Transverse section of 



fruit (mag.). 



llebtnstreitia. 



Fertile carpel, 



outer face. 



Ifebemtrtilia. 



Fertile carpel, 



inner race. 



J/ebenstreitia. 

 Fertile carpel cnt 

 vertically (mag.). 



Ilebenttreitia. ffebtnstreitia. Hebenttreitia. 



Sterile carpel, Sterile carpel, Seed cnt verti- 



outer face. inner face. colly (mag.). 



sepalous, spathiform or tubular, 5-3-toothed of -partite, rarely of 2 free sepals. 

 COROLLA hypogynous, nionopetalous, deciduous ; tube entire or split lengthwise ; limb 

 4-5-lobed, 1-2-labiate or sub-regular, spreading, aestivation imbricate. STAMENS 

 inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate with its segments, sometimes 4 sub-didyna- 

 mous, or equal with a rudimentary fifth, sometimes 2 only ; filaments filiform ; anthers 

 1-celled, dehiscence longitudinal. OVAEY free, of 2 antero-posterior cells; style 

 terminal, simple ; stigma undivided, sub-capitate ; ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous 

 from the top cell, anatropous. FEUIT of 2 achenes, free when ripe, often unequal, 

 one. sterile or obsolete ; pericarp membranous, adherent to the seed, rarely spongy or 

 furrowed with cellules. SEEDS inverted ; testa coriaceous. EMBRYO straight, cylin- 



