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the former quincuncially imbricated, the latter contorted in prse- 

 floration ; the stamens, also slightly perigynous, are free, and each 

 formed of a short filament and an elongated anther with narrow- 

 connective, a little flattened, elongated into a point above the linear 

 cells, slightly introrse or almost marginal, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 The gynseceum is almost entirely free, superior, formed of a three- 



Dryobalanops aromatica. 



Fig. 212. 

 Floral diagram. 



Fig. 213. 

 Long. sect, of flower (f ). 



Fig. 214. 

 Lono\ sect, of fruit. 



celled ovary, complete or incomplete, surmounted by a style the stig- 

 matiferous apex of which is slightly dilated, hollowed, and crenate 

 upon the edges. In the internal angle of each cell may be observed 

 two collateral descending incompletely anatropous ovules, with the 

 micropyle looking upwards and outwards. The fruit is a capsule 

 opening from the apex into three panels with a triangular summit. 

 It is set in a short basilar cupule, supporting upon its edges five 

 large elongated wings, obtuse at the apex, nearly equal to each other, 

 membranous, rigid or almost coriaceous. In the capsule is found a 

 seed, or more rarely two, which often germinate in the interior of 

 the pericarp (fig. 214). Each of them encloses under its coats 



p 2 



