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number as the sepals, with which they alternate, imbricate in the 

 bud and dissimilar, the posterior being larger than the anterior, 

 which they cover, the latter sometimes becoming very small or even 

 in some species being entii-ely wanting. The anch'oceum is formed 



Ti'opceolum majus. 



Fig. 25. Gynajceum. 



Fig. 36. Fruit. 



Fig. 33. Diagram. Fig 37. Long. sect, of ripe carpel. 



of two verticils each of four stamens. In that where the parts 

 are alternipetalous, it is the stamen superposed to the spur which is 

 wanting, it being the anterior one iii the verticil of oppositipetalous 

 stamens. All are, however, formed of a free filament and two-celled 

 anther, dehiscing by two lateral or interior clefts. ^ The gynceceum 

 is free, formed of a three-celled ovary, surmounted by a style whose 

 siimmit is divided into three equal or unequal branches, bearing 



• Tho pollen is according to H. Moiil (in suppressed on account of the furrows found on 

 Ami. Sc. Nat. scr. 2, iii. 337), formed of "trian- them, in water elliiisoidal, flattened, triangular 

 gular prisms with prickles, lateral rounded, or at thi' middle with three slioit bands: T.Majiis. 



