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are ill-developed or absent. The flowers form large axillary or 

 terminal branching compound racemes, and are accompanied by 

 caducous bracts and bractlets. 



The Carob, 1 St. John's Tree, or Locust Tree (Fi- Caroubier • fiffs. 

 120-122), has polygamo-dicecions flowers. In the hermaphrodite 



Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob tree). 



Fig. 120. 

 Habit (|). 



the receptacle has a very peculiar form, like a large thick shallow 

 porringer lined by a large fleshy quoit-shaped disk, filling the whole 

 concavity of the receptacle. 2 On the rim of this are inserted five 

 little thick sepals, at first imbricated in the bud, but early ceasing to 

 overlap. The androceum is composed of five stamens superposed to 

 the sepals, each consisting of a free subulate filament inserted under 



1 CeratoniaL., Gen.,n.ll&7. — J.,Gen ,347. — 

 LAMK.,D^.,i.635; Suppl., ii. 119; Til., t. 859.— 

 Gjjrtn., Fruet., ii. t. 146.— DC, Mem. Legum., 

 ii.t. 23, fig. 114 ; Prodr., ii. 486.— Spach, Suit, 

 a Bvffon, i. 109.— Endl., Gen., n. 6809.— B. H., 

 Gen., 574, n. 332.— Siliqua T., Instil., 578, t. 



344. — Ceratia Plin., ex Adaxs., Fam. des PI. 

 ii. 319. 



2 Wc pointed out above that the disk of 

 Arouna (figs. US, 11!)) made it transitional 

 between the other species of Di ilium and 

 Ceratonia (tigs. 121, 122). 



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