PHYTOLA CCA CBM. 



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numbers 1 as unisexual glomerules, the female flowers being accom- 

 panied by small herbaceous bracts. 



VI. GYEOSTEMON SERIES. 



The first species known of the genus Gyrostemon? G. ramulosus* (figs. 

 66-71), has dioecious regular, monoperianthous flowers. The convex 



Gyrostemon ramulosus. 



Fig. 67. 

 Male flower (f). 



Fig. 68. 



Longitudinal section of male 



flower. 



Fig. 69. 



Female flower (|-). 



Fig. 70. 



Longitudinal section of 

 female flower. 



Fig. 66. 

 Male floriferous branch. 



Fig. 71. 

 Dehiscent fruit (±). 



receptacle, in the shape of a surbased dome, is, in the male flowers 

 (figs. 66—68), quite covered with stamens, surrounded by a short 



1 Often from one to three for the males; the n. 5264. — Linde., Veg. Kingd., 282. Moq., 



females are often ternate, the two lateral being Prodr., 38. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 156, t. 5 



younger than the mesial. (inch : Codonocarpus A. Ctjnn., Cyclotheca 



2 Desf., in Mem. Mus., vi. 16, t. 6, 7; viii. Moq., Hymenotheca F. Muell.). 



115, t. 10. — Tukp., in Diet. Sc. Nat., All., 3 Desf., loc. cit., t. 6, 7, 10, fig. a. — Benth., 



t. 280.— DC, Prodr., i. 516.— Exdl., Gen., Ft. Austral., v. 117, n. 3. 



