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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



IV. CHIKANTHODENDRON SERIES. 



Chirantliodendron x (figs. 103-105) has regular hermaphrodite 

 apetalous flowers. Upon the depressed receptacle is inserted a 

 campanulate, coloured, thick, coriaceous perianth, whose divisions are 

 united toward the base, and in the bud are ranged in quincuncial 

 praefloration. At the foot of each is found a nectariferous dimple. 

 More internally the receptacle bears the gynaeceum, and around it 

 enveloping it like a sheath the androceum is found, formed of five 

 monadelphous stamens alternating with the divisions of the calyx. 



Ch iranthodendron platanoides. 



Fig. 103. 

 Flower. 



Fig. 105. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



The filaments in the lower part form a long tube, conical on a level 

 with the ovary which it envelops, then cylindrical a little higher up, 

 and traversed by the style in its upper part. The summits of the 



1 H., ex Larreategei, Descr. Pot. du Chi- 

 ranthodendron... (trad. Lescall., 1805), icon. — 

 Cheirostemon H. B., PI. JSquin., i. 81, t. 24. — 

 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 302. — Tiles., 

 in Act. Petrop., v. 321, t. 9.— DC, Prodr., 



i. 480. — Schott et Ende., Melet., 34. — Turp., 

 in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., t. 139. — Endl., Gen., 

 n. 5307. — Pater, Organog., 45. — B. H. Gen., 

 212, n. 52, 983, n. 12 a.—U. Bn., in Payer 

 Fam. Nat., 287. 



