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with a sort of elongated scale, at first applied by its concavity to 

 the ovary, 1 and of a two-celled, introrse anther, dehiscing by two 

 longitudinal clefts. 2 The gynaeceum is free and superior, composed 

 of an ovary supported by a short, thick foot, round which the recep- 

 tacle thickens into an inconsiderable glandular disk, surmounted by 

 a style tapering towards the stigmatiferous apex, not thickened. 



Zygoplujlhm Fabago. 



Fig. 499. 

 Long. sect, of flower (|). 



Fig. 501. 

 Seed (f). 



Fig. 497. 

 Florif'erous brauch. 



Fig. 500. 

 Fruit. 



Fig. 502. 

 Loug. sect, of seed. 



The ovaiy contains five cells, superposed to the petals, and each con- 

 taining numerous ovules, inserted in two series in the internal angle, 

 descending, anatropous, with micropyle turned outwards and up- 

 wards. 3 The fruit is a capsule 4 with five angles, loculicidal, the seeds 

 containing under their coats 5 a not very thick fleshy albumen sur- 

 rounding an embryo with elongated cotyledons. Z. Fabago is a suf- 



1 These tongues are developed according to 

 Payer (op. tit. 69), " a little before the opening 

 of the flower," and show thmselves first upon 

 the receptacle itself. 



2 The pollen, orange in colour, is " small 

 ovoid; three folds: in water oval with three 

 bands, bearing three very small papilla?." (H. 

 Mohl, in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 2, iii. 339.) 



3 They have two coats. 



4 The pericarp is outwardly glabrous and 

 slightly fleshy in this species, with an endocarp 

 also thin and almost pergameneous. It presents 

 five prominent angles corresponding to the back 



of the cells, and which in certain species are 

 developed into small wings. 



5 Three of them are distinguished : the ex- 

 terior soft, cellular, greenish, swelling when in 

 contact with water, bearing an umbilical linear 

 cicatrice towards the middle of the length of its 

 internal angle; a middle one harder, thin, 

 brownish, much more enduring; an internal 

 one thin and whitish, thickened only on a level 

 with the cupule of the chalaza, with the albumen 

 very adherent for almost the whole extent of its 

 internal surface. 



