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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



This support finally opens and gapes widely, revealing the follicles 

 covered with long reflexed hairs. They are surmounted by the 

 recurved, hooked, persistent style, and open along the ventral angle. 



Cephalotus follicularis. 



Fig. 379. 

 Flower (f). 



S3 



1*1 



- (few®* 



Fig. 380. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 381. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



The seed is elliptical-oblong, with a pale, lax, membranous, outer 

 coat ; the fleshy albumen contains near its base a little axile embryo. 

 C. follicularis, 1 the only known sj)ecies, is a perennial herb, from the 



1 Labile., loc. cit. — Hook., in Bot. Mag., t. 

 3118, 3119.— Nees, in PI. Preiss., i. 278.— 



Bentii., Fl. Austral., ii. 449. — Lem. & Dcke., 

 Tr. Gen., 266. 



