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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



whose five fertile stamens have slender filaments, the ovary being 

 stipitate, and the leaves trifoliolate ; Leptothyrsa, with tetramerous 



CnVrpcn macrophi/lla. 



Fig. 405. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 406. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



Fig. 407. 

 Androceum. 



Fig. 408. 

 Gynaeceum. 



flowers, equal stamens, and having slender filaments, a sessile ovary 

 of four carpels, and simple leaves. The genera of irregular flowers 



Ticorea jasmwiflnra. 



Fig. 409. 

 Flower. 



Fig. 411. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



have stamens united with the corolla, or lining it for a certain 

 distance, a certain number of them remaining sterile, as in the 



