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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



summit of the seminal cavity, together with the radicle. Four 

 species of this genus have been described ; l most are only known by 

 their male flowers. 



Rameya capitata. 



Fig. 15. 

 Female floriferous branch (~). 



We have described a genus under the name of Uameya (fig. 15), 2 

 of which the flowers are very imperfectly known ; but the carpels 

 are very numerous, collected on a globular receptacle, the whole 

 being comparable to a young Blackberry. It seems probable that in 

 this genus the exalbuminous embryo is formed like that of Triclisia 



1 Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 48.— Miees, in 

 Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xix. 328. 



H. Bn., in Adansonia, ix. 313, t. 11. 



