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mounted by a style almost immediately separated into two thick 

 elongated branches, furnished within and upon the reflexed edges 



Barbeuia maclagascariensis. 



Fig. 41. 

 Flower (f ). 



Fig. 43. 

 GynEeceum, open (|). 



Barbeuia maclagascariensis. 



with stigmatic papillse. In each of the ovary cells is a placenta, 

 basilar or sub-basilar, supporting a campylotropal ovule. The micro- 

 pyle is inferior and lateral, as in Limeum, turned in such a way that 

 that of one cell being placed on the right side, that of the other on 

 the contrary is turned to the left. The fruit 

 is, according to Dupetit-Thouars, capsular 

 and bilocular, each cell containing an arillate 

 seed. The only species known of this genus 1 

 is a slender climbing shrub of Madagascar, 

 with alternate entire petiolate leaves, 2 articu- 

 lated at the base. The flowers are arranged 

 in short axillary racemes with compressed axis, 

 each of them having a rather long pedicel 

 which swells towards its upper part. It is 

 thus seen that with the vegetative organs of 

 Seguieria, &c, Barbeuia has the gynseceum 

 of Limeum, but with two ovary cells always united and close together. 



Fig. 42. 

 Diagram. 



1 B. maclagascariensis Stetjd., Norn., 101. 

 2 They become black in desiccation, and have a disagreeable odour. 



