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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



S. chiiicmis' the filaments of tlie stamens become yet more slender, 

 and are not so closely packed ; they have now the form of erect, 

 somewhat flattened, rods, with narrow elongated anther-cells 

 applied vertically along the borders of the connective, and looking 

 outwards or inwards according to the stamen we observe. In >S'. 

 prop'mqiin^- the filaments become very short, while their tissue 

 is thickened and swells with the receptacle, so that the andro- 

 ceum is only represented by sessile anthers, with their introrse' 

 cells close toiicther, embedded in a sort of niche hollowed out of 



Scliizandra (^Sphcerosfema) propinqua. 

 Fig. 184. Fig. 183. 



Male flower. Floriferous branch. 



the substance of the large, spherical, fleshy receptacle (fig. 184). 

 In this species, as in several others, the flowers are dioecious and 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves of the adult branches (fig. 188). 



zandr., 17, t. v. ; Hook. & Thoms., Fh Ind., i. 

 85. — S. tjrandijlorum Wall., ex part. 



' S.japonica A. GjiAY, in Jlem. Amer.Acad., 

 vi. 380.— MiQ.,.fn«. Mtis. Lu(/d.-Bat., iii, 91.— 

 Sphtrrosicma japonicum Silb. & Zucc, Abh. 

 Akad. Munrh., iv. p. ji. 188. — MaximovUzia 

 chineiisi.i \{vvR., op. cit. As we inchide in 

 this genus Kadxura japonica, whose specific 

 name must be retained according to the la\v of 

 priority, we must modify that of tlie species under 

 consideration and call it <S'. cliinensis. 



• Spharostema proquinquum Hl., op. cil.. 



14 — Hook. & Thoms., op. cit., i. 85. — S.pyrifo- 

 limn Bl., op. cit., 16, t. 4. — Hook., in Bot. Mag., 

 t. 4614. — Kadsura in-opinqua Wall., Tent. Fl. 

 Nepal., 11, t. 15. 



•* The stamens are distinct when young. Later 

 on the filaments are thickened with the receptacle 

 into a sphere which connects all the anthers. 1-iut 

 next to these the tissue of the former organs 

 cannot assume that development, so that a cer- 

 tain number of pits are formed facing the introrse 

 anther. 



