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X. CNEORUM SERIES (Fi\, Camelee). 



The flowers of Cneorum? (figs. 493-496) are regular and herma- 

 phrodite, in four or more frequently in three parts. In the latter 



Cneorum tricoccum. 



Fig. 496. 



Fower, the perianth 



taken away. 



Fig. 493. 



Fructiferous and floriferous 

 inflorescence. 



Fig. 495. 

 Long. sect, of flower (|). 



Cneorum tricoccum. 



case their convex receptacle bears, first, three sepals united below 

 for a very short distance, and early ceasing to touch in the bud, 

 then three alternate petals, longer, imbricated (or 

 rarely contorted) in prsefloration. Higher, the re- 

 ceptacle thickens into a glandular disk, below which 

 three alternipetalous depressions are seen, in which 

 the stamens are inserted, each formed of a free, sub- 

 ulate filament, and a two-celled, introrse anther, 

 dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. The gynse- 

 ceum, borne by the summit of the receptacle, is 

 composed of an ovary with three oppositipetalous 

 cells, dorsally separated by three deep grooves, sur- 

 mounted by an erect style dilated above into three stigmatiferous 

 lobes. In the internal angle of each cell two descending campylo- 



Fig. 494. 

 Diagram. 



trifoliolate or imparipinnate. The flowers are 

 united in large ramified racemes of axillary and 

 terminal cymes ; some ten species of them are 

 known, natives of the tropical regions of the two 

 Americas. (H. V>.,Pl.2Equiii., i. 210, t. 59-62.— 

 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec.,\\\. 42.— A. Joss., 

 in Mem. Mas., xii. 501. — Griseb., Fl. Brit. 

 W.-Ind., 138.— Wax*., Rep., i. 519; Ann., i. 

 156; vii. 541.) 



1 Cneorum L., Gen., a. 48. — J., Gen., 369. — 



Lamk., Diet., i. 568; Suppl., ii. 46; III., t. 27. 

 — K., in Ann. Sc. Nat., scr. 1. ii. 357. — DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 83. — Endl., Gen., n. 5954. — Payee, 

 Organog., 100, t. 23. — B. H., Gen., 311, n. 11. 

 -AG., Theor. Syst., t. 18, fig. 18, 19.— Lot. & 

 Dcne., Tr. Gen., 368. — II. Bw., in Adansonia, x. 

 317. — Chamcelea T., Inst. ,6~)l,t. 421.— Adans., 

 Fcm. des PL, ii. 3G9.— G.ektn., Fntcf , i. 342, 

 t. 70. 



