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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



which bears two lateral bractlets. All the preceding genera, analo- 

 gous to this by their digitate leaves, form a subtribe of Adansonice. 



Quararibea (figs. 171, 172) is the type of a subseries in which the 

 leaves are simple, palminerved, or at least trinerved at the base. 



Quararibea (Eumgrodia) turhinata. 



Fig. 171. 

 Flower. 



Fig. 172. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



The stamens have their filaments united into a long tube, traversed 

 by the style. This tube remains entire in its whole extent, or it is 

 cleft more or less deeply into five thongs in its upper part, which 



Durio zibethimis. 



Fig x 173. 



Flower. 



supports the anthers. These are one-celled and separated from 

 each other, or they approach so as to appear like two cells 

 of one anther (Myrodia), or they may even be confluent at the 

 summit by the upper part of their clefts. The general organi- 

 zation of the flower, and especially of the androceum, is the same in 



