JtESEDACEJl. 



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strips. We shall find all this in Reseda, of which Asirocarpus has the 

 stamens too ; there are from six to twenty of these, inserted at very 



Astrocarpns canescens. 





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Pig. 312. 

 6-carpellate flower 



Fig 31!. 

 Long. sect, of flower (\ ). 



Fig. 315. 

 1 2-androus flower ("). 



Fig. 316. Fig. 313. 



Long. sect, of 12-androus flower ( T ). Diagram. 



Fig. 317. 

 Fruit (f). 



unequal heights on the receptacle, for behind they are raised on a 

 sort of disk, formed like a thick glandular scale and greatly developed 

 on that side. The free superior gynseceum is formed of as many 

 carpels as there are petals (to which they are superposed), inserted 

 on the prolonged summit of the receptacle. Each carpel has an 

 ovary, gibbous above and behind, tapering above and ventrally into 

 a short style, whose apex is stigmatiferous internally. In each 

 carpel is a dorsal parietal placenta, usually bearing one descending 

 campylotropous ovule, with its micropyle looking upwards and in- 



— Payee, Organog., 199, t. 40. — J. Muell., n. 1. — Sesamoides T., Inst., 42i4>, t. 23S.— Sesa- 

 Monogr. Resedac., 218, t. 10, fig. 130, 131 ; in mella Reichb., Consp. Regn. Veg.. n. 1823. 

 DC. Prodr., xvi. sect. ii. 552.— B. H., Gen., Ill, 



