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or few seeds possessing an arillary outgrowth above the base. 

 Bocconia consists of perennial herbs or shrubs, with a yellow or red 

 juice. The leaves are alternate, lobed ; the small flowers form 

 terminal compound racemes. 1 Of the three known species one 

 inhabits China and Japan, and the others are spread over great part 

 of Tropical America. 3 



Bocconia fmiescens. 



Fig. 131. 

 Flower (\). 



Fig. 132. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 133. 



Long. sect, of gynaeceuni. 



Celandine 4 (Fr., Chelidoine, figs. 134-136) has the perianth and 

 androceum of the Poppies, 6 two caducous sepals, four caducous similar 

 petals, and an indefinite number of free hypogynous stamens with 

 introrse two-celled anthers of longitudinal dehiscence. But the 

 gynseceum is reduced to two alternisepalous carpellary leaves. The 

 elongated one-celled ovary ends in a short thick style, which divides 

 above into two short deflexed stigmatiferous lobes superposed to 

 the placentas. 6 These last are superposed to the sepals, linear, 

 bearing an indefinite number of anatropous ascending ovules, 



1 " They are racemes of flowers again grouped 

 into a raceme along a common axis. I may add 

 that in each of the smaller racemes (Fr., Grappe) 

 the chief axis of the inflorescence ends in a flower 

 which expands before the rest" (Payee, loc. cit., 

 218). 



2 B. cordata. Several forms from Japan are 

 now cultivated, especially Macleya iedoensis 

 Sieb. & Zucc. (Waxp., Rep., i. 109; Ann., vii. 

 87). 



3 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 119, t. 35. — 

 Bot. Mag., t. 1905. 



4 CheUdonium T., Inst., 231, t. 116.— L., 

 Gen., n. 647. — Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 432. — 

 J., Gen., 236. — G^etn., Fruct., ii. 164, 1. 115. — 

 Lake., Diet., i. 73; Suppl., i. 208; III., t. 450. — 

 DC, Si/st., ii. 98; Prodr., i. 122.— Spach, Suit. 

 a Bnffon, vii. 34. — Endl., Gen., n. 4819. — 

 Payee, Organog., 217, t. 45. — B. H., Gen., 53, 

 n. 14. 



5 The pollen is like that of Papaver. 



6 The two lobes being the prominent papillose 

 portions, while the alternating deflexed rounded 

 prominences represent the summits of the carpels. 



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