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cells which occupy the same position as the stamens in the male. 

 Above the cells become free, each tapering into a style, which is 

 grooved right down the ventral surface. The thickened reflexed 

 borders of the groove are covered with numerous stigmatic papillae. 



Myosiirandra moschata. 



Fig. 486. 

 Female flower (^). 



Fio. 485. 

 Female flowering branch. 



Fio. 488. 



Long. sect, of female 

 flower. 



In the ventral angle of each cell is a placenta bearing numerous 

 anatropous ascending ovules, with their micropjdes looking down- 

 wards and outwards, and arranged in two parallel rows. The fruit 

 consists of four follicles, slightly coherent by the inner edge ; they 

 dehisce ventrally. The seeds are indefinite, and contain in their 

 coats a fleshy albumen, surrounding a little axile embryo. As yet 

 only one species of this genus is known, M. mosc/iafa, 1 a shrub from 

 Madagascar; all its parts have a musky scent, as the name applies. 

 The branches are knotty. The leaves are opposite, each pair united 

 below into a tubular sheath, which envelopes without adhering to 



1 We recently found this plant in Bojer's herbarium, under the name of Antkospermum plicatum. 

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