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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



XII. BAUEEA SEEIES. 



Bauefa 1 (figs. 443-447) has a nearly flat or subconeave receptacle, 

 on the margin of which are inserted the slightly perigynous perianth 

 and anclroceum. The calyx consists of from four to ten persistent 



Bauera rtibiodes. 



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Fig. 443. 

 Flowering branch. 



Fig. 444. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 445. 

 Long sect, of flower. 



leaves, sometimes dentate, and of valvate or subimbricate activation. 

 The corolla is regular, formed of as many alternate sessile imbricate 

 petals. The number of stamens 2 varies from as many to five times 



t. 76, 77. — Tore. & Gray, Fl. N.-Amer., i. 544. 

 — A. Gray, Man., ed. 5, 164.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil., 

 iii. 32. — Wedd., CM. Andina, ii. 214. — Hook. f. 

 & Thoms., in Journ. Linn. Soc, ii. 86. — Geen. 

 & Godr., Fl. de Fr., i. 634.— Bot. Reg., t. 125, 

 1237, 1274, 1359, 1471, 1557, 1658, 1692.— 

 Bot. Mag., t. 3530, 4931.— Walp., Rep., ii. 357; 

 v. 822; Ann., i. 975; ii. 6S7; v. 22; vii. 

 912. 



1 Banks, ex Kenked., in Andr. Bot. Repos., 

 t. 198. — Salisb., in Keen. Ann. of Bot., i. 12, t. 

 10.— DC, Prodr., iv. 13.— Spach, Suit. a Buff on, 

 v. 12.— Ende., Gen., n. 4665. — H. En., in Adan- 

 sonia, v. 301. — B. H., Gen., 655, n. 72. 



2 In B. rubioides the clefts of dehiscence 

 appear first above ; later on they blend towards 

 the top of the connective. The pollen is analo- 

 gous to that of the Saxifraga, Cunonia, &c 



