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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bud. The corolla is formed of five twisted petals united at their 

 base with that of the tube of the androceum which is in a single 

 piece, dilated at the base, traversed in its length by the styles, 

 divided above into an indefinite number of filaments and sur- 



Malope trifida. 



Fig. 145. 



Floriferous branch (|) 



: 



Fig. 147. Fig. 146. Fig. 148. 



Gynseccum (f ). Young expanded flower. Fruit (f). 



mounted by a one-celled extrose anther, dehiscing by a longitudinal 

 cleft. The gynseceum is composed of a great number of carpels 

 whose independent ovaries are arranged in vertical 1 series upon the 



1 More or less distinct according to the age, and arranged, according to Payer, upon five promi- 

 nent angles of the receptacle superposed to the sepals. (See A. Dickson, in Adansotiia, iv. 207.) 



