LEG UMINOSJE-GJKSA LTIN1E. E. 



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five large nearly equal alternating petals, also imbricate in the bud. 

 The stamens, ten in number, have their filaments inflexed in the bud ; 

 and hence the anthers are contained in the concavity of the recep- 

 tacle. The ovary is central and multiovulate, surmounted by a style, 

 which is at first involute and is dilated above into a peltate stigma. 

 Thus, the flowers of this plant in all respects resemble those of Thy- 

 lacantltus femigineus ; but the peculiar character of JDicymbe lies in the 

 lateral bractlets enveloping the flower, each forming a hollow 

 coriaceous hemisphere, so that when applied to one another by their 

 thick edges they form a regular globular box. This sac is not nearly 

 so thick in T. femigineus, whose calyx is always pentamerous, whose 

 petals have far narrower bases, and whose ovules are less numerous. 

 For these reasons we make Dicymbe a simple section of the genus 

 Thylacanlhus, with the specific name of T. corymbosa. 



Campsiandra, 1 with the general characters of the preceding genera, 

 and especially of Melanoxylon, presents an androceum of more than 



Campsiandra comosa. 



Fig. 63. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 64. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



ten stamens ; it has from fifteen to twenty, whose long filaments are 

 reflexed in the bud, but are later much exserted ; their anthers are 

 at first lodged in the deep cavity of the receptacle between its walls 



1 Benth., in Booh. Journ., ii. 93.— Pcepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen, et Spec, t. 268. — EUDL., 

 Gen., n. 6810 ».— B. H., Gen., 563, n. 299. 



