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and 2, which is posterior, is also more developed than 4 or 5. There 

 are five equal petals, free or united into a tube below, alternating with 

 the calyx-lobes and valvate in the bud. The androceum consists of 

 ten stamens superposed to the perianth-leaves. Below the filaments 

 form a tube, united for some distance to the petals ; they then become 



Vwrkia biglobosa. 



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Fig. 24. 

 Inflorescence (|). 



Fig. 25. 

 Flower (\). 



Fig. 26. 



Longitudinal section 

 of flower. 



Fig. 27. 



Young flower-bud 



with its axillant bract (\). 



free before splitting up into ten exserted linear strips, each supporting 

 an introrse two-celled anther of longitudinal dehiscence, tipped by a 

 little gland. The free central gynaeceum consists of a sessile or 

 stipitate one-celled ovary, including an indefinite number of ana- 

 tropous ovules, and surmounted by an exserted terminal style, 

 truncate or scarcely dilated at its stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is 

 a straight or bowed narrow elongated pod, dehiscing by two valves 

 and enclosing in suberous pulp a variable number of seeds. These 

 contain a fleshy embryo, with thick cotyledons whose decunvnt 

 bases envelope the radicle. ParJcia consists of seven or eight species 



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