B1XACEJS. 



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the floral tube. They can descend very low in that way, and their 

 insertion may thus become almost completely hypogynous ; this 

 occurs especially in certain African species forming the genus 



Turnera cistoides. 



Fig. 339. 



Floriferous branch. 



Wbrmskioldia. 1 Each stamen is composed of a free filament, linear 

 or flattened, and of an oblong, two-celled, introrse anther, dehiscing 

 by two longitudinal clefts. The gynaeceuin is free at the bottom of 

 the floral tube, formed of a unilocular ovary, and surmounted 

 by three styles, of which the two anterior are generally simple, 

 very soon bipartite as in Piriqaeta? with the stigrnatiferous apex 

 nearly entire, 3 more generally fimbriate, fan-shaped. 4 Each placenta 



1 Scrum. & Thonn., BesJcr., i. 165. — Endi.., 295. — DC, Prodr., iii. 318. — Endl., Gen., n. 



Gen., n. 5058.— B. H... Gen., 807, n. 3.— Tri- 

 cliceras DC., PI. Ear. Jard. Gen., 56. — ISchu- 

 macheria Speeng., Gen., 232, n. 1220 (nee 

 Vahl). — Streptopetalum Hociist., in Flora 

 (1841), 665. 



2 AuBi., Guhan., i. 298, t. 117.— J., Gen., 



5057. — Burghartia Neck., JElem., n. 1186. — 

 Burkardia Scop., Introd., n. 1027. 



3 It is especially so in the Erblichia. 



4 The divisions are from two to five, or even 

 indefinite in number. 



