SAXIFBAGACEJE. 



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it has the flowers, hermaphrodite or polygamous, and tetramerous. 

 But the calyx is here generally more imbricated and caducous. In the 



Cunonia capensis. 



Fig. 418. 

 Flowering branch (i). 



septicidal capsule the valves part company from above downwards ; 

 and the upper part, gaping inwards, is not united with the columella. 

 However, these characters are not constant in Weinmannia, and to 

 distinguish it absolutely from Cunonia we must fall back on the 



seeds. 



These are globular or oblong, reniform, with a membranous 



Adans., Fam. des PI., ii. 343.— ? Pterophylla Gen., n. 4658. — Arnoldia Bl., Bijdr., 868. — 

 Bon, in Fdinb. N. Phil. Journ., i.v. 93. — Fls'Dl., DC, Prodr., iv. 12. — Exdl., Gen., n. 4659. 



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