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stamens : five fertile, superposed to the sepals, each formed of a 

 short free filament, and a two-celled extrorse anther, dehiscing upon 

 the edges by two longitudinal clefts, and five oppositipetalous, trans- 

 formed into petaloid plates, contorted in the bud, and forming alto- 



Sauvagesia erecta. 



Fig. 373. 

 Fruit (f). 



Fig. 370. 

 Floriferous branch 



Fig. 371. 

 Seed (f). 



Fig. 375. 



Long. sect, of seed. 



Fig. 371. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 372. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



gether a kind of second interior corolla. 1 Between the androceum 

 thus constituted and the perianth, is generally seen a large number 

 of tongues, often swollen into a gland at the apex, and which have 

 been considered as the elements of a disk.' 2 The gynseceum is free, 



1 According to Payer (loc. cit.), " this second 

 corolla is only a disk deep fringed or not fringed, 

 as in Passiflorece." 



2 The form of the terminal gland much recalls 

 that of a sterile anther in some species. It is 

 possible that these tongues, often compared to 

 the stipitate or ramified •-'""'- nf n ~ • 



nothing but the exterior staminodes of a phalanx, 

 of which the inner petaloid plates form also a 

 part only distinguished from the exterior sta- 

 minodes by their size and pet;>loid consistence. 

 The glandular supports often have their 

 summits divided into two (rudimentary?) cells. 



