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longitudinal dehiscence, whose connective is often surmounted by a 

 mossy glandular point. The gynseceum is inserted by a long slender 

 foot in the bottom of the receptacle. Its ovary 1 contains an inde- 

 finite number of ovules, and is surmounted by a short style, with an 

 undilated stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is an oblong flattened 

 coriaceous or woody bivalve pod. The seeds, surrounded by a 

 variable thickness of pulp, contain within their coats- a fleshy 



Brandzeia fil':cifolia. 



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Fig. 135. 

 ILvblt (i). 



embryo surrounded by thick, fleshy or subcorneous albumen. This 

 genus consists of unarmed trees from tropical Africa" and 



1 Often covered with very long woolly hairs becomes much thicker in contact with water (see 



(fi-s. 133, 134). Adansonia, vi. 201), 



- The middle coat is very Lard; it is sur- :< The old species, named /•*/'//, 



rounded by a soft layer, which swells uj) and by the authors of the Flore ■•'■'" Tenia- 



