XXIX. CHL^ENACEiE. 



There is in this small family a genus with diplostemonous 

 androceum, which we will study in the first place. It is the genus 



Fig. 226. 

 Biul, without involucel 

 and calyx (f ). 



Leptolcena mullijlora. 



Fig. 222. 



Floriferons branch. 



Fig. 227. 



Flower, without 

 perianth. 



Fig. 223. 

 Bud (|). 



Fig. 225. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 224. 

 Biul, without involucel. 



Leptolana' (figs. 222-234), the flowers of which are regular, her- 



1 Dup.-Th., Hist, des Yeg. Rec. dans les lies Spacii, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 55. — Ltndl., Yeg. 

 Austr. d'Afr., 41, t, 11.— DC, Prodr., i. 521.— Kingd., 486, fig. 335.— Ehdi,., Gen., n. 5399.— 



