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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



superposed to the sepals, five to the petals. The latter are the 

 smaller, and form a whorl internal to the former. Each stamen is 

 formed of a decimate filament, villous or glandular at the base, and 



Ccesalpinia Sappan. 



Via. 

 Habit (i). 



an introrse two-celled anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. 1 

 The gynaeceum, composed of a single carpel lary leaf superposed to 

 the anterior sepal, consists of a sessile ovary tapering at the tip into 

 a style, whose stigmatiferous apex forms a funnel, with a large gaping 

 mouth of variable size and a more or less thickened reflexed rim. On 

 the side next the posterior petal the ovary contains a parietal placenta 

 bearing several descending anatropous ovules'- in two vertical rows ; 

 the micropyles look upwards and outwards — that is, to the anterior 



1 The pollen is spherical in C. pulcherrima (H. Mohx, Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, iii. 



(formerly referred to the genus Poinclana), 342). 



with a punctate outer coat, and three flat s They have two coats in the species we have 



strongly punctate bands meeting at the poles under cultivation, C. pulcherrima and GiUiesii. 



