CHL^NACEJE. 



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maphrodite, and each enveloped in a more or less fleshy sac, 

 persistent and thickening round the fruit, the opening being cut into 

 five or six teeth. The calyx is formed of three sepals, imbricated 

 or more frequently contorted in praefloration ; and the corolla of five 

 petals contorted in the bud. Within the corolla is found a short 

 tube almost membranous, with the upper edge cut straight, 



Leptolcena multiflora. 



dentate, crenate, generally described as a disc. Within the base 

 ten stamens are inserted, of which five are superposed to the petals, 

 and five alternate rather shorter, each formed of a free filament and a 

 two-celled introrse anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. 1 The 

 gynseceum is free and superior, composed of an ovary with three 

 cells alternate with the sepals, surmounted by a style, the apex 



H. Bx., in Payer Fam. Nat., 263.— B. H., Gen., 

 195, n. 1. 



1 These clefts are most frequently confluent at 

 the summit. 



