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the margin' of the disk ; they have free filaments, often sticking to 

 the edges of the petals, and introrse two-celled anthers of longitudinal 

 dehiscence. The inferior ovary contains two, or more rarely three 

 cells, complete or nearly so, 1 and containing in the ventral angle the 



Escallonia rubra. 



Fig. 405. 



Flowering branch. 



large 2-lobed placentas, covered with anatropous ovules. The stig- 

 matiferous head of the single style is divided into two or three lobes, 

 often ill-defined. This style persists with the disk and calyx at the 

 top of the fruit, which is a septicidal two or three- celled capsule, 

 opening at the base into two or three valves, while the placentas 

 are left covered with the indefinite small seeds, whose coats 2 contain 

 a fleshy albumen enfolding an axile embryo. Escallonia consists of 

 some thirty species 3 of American trees or shrubs, often glandular, 



1 Very often the placentas touch by the inner membranous bag, sometimes prolonged at the 



edge of their two rounded lobes (fig. 407), but base into a sort of cellular fringe, 

 they may be usually separated by slight traction. 3 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, iii. 294. — 



5 The outer coat usually forms a lax furrowed Vent., Ch. de PL, t. 54. — Reichb., Ic. JExot., 



