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of a free filament, and elongated, two-celled, introrse anther, dehis- 

 cing by two longitudinal clefts. 1 Higher, in front of the sepals, the 

 sides of the receptacular cone bear five alternipetalous carpels, inde- 



Coriaria myrtifolia. 



Fig. 522. 

 Flower, calyx taken away. 



Fig. 521. 

 Female flower (^). 



Fig. 523. 



Long. sect, of flower. 



pendent of each other, the one-celled ovary tapering above into a 

 long, slender, flexuous style, quite covered with stigmatic papilla?. 

 In the internal angle of each ovary a parietal placenta is found sup- 

 porting one single, anatropous, descending ovule with superior and 



Coriaria myrtifolia. 



Fig. 524. 

 Fruit (f ). 



Fig. 525. 



Long. sect, of fruit. 



inferior micropyle, and with dorsal raphe. 2 The fruit is formed of five 

 carpels, at first drupaceous, then almost completely dry, borne \>y 

 the receptacle become fleshy, and it is furnished at the base with the 

 persistent calyx, and the petals become thicker, fleshy, prominent, 

 corner-shaped or carinate in the interval of the carpels. In each of 



1 The pollen in C. myrtifolia is "rounded; upon three hut slightly prominent angles is an oval 

 pore with large round halo." (H. Mohl, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, iii. 337.) 



2 With double coat. 



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