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NATURAL UISTOUY OF PLANTS. 



already existed in a soft state below the surface of the ovary. 

 It opens elastically into six panels, and allows three seeds to escape,^ 

 (fig. IGO, 161), whoso coat is spotted, the exostome being thickened 



The embryo and 



into a siibglobular unibilioate bilobed caruncle 



Miciinis comnntiiis. 



'1 



i 



xSSi. 







Fio 



1.53, Haljit(5y- 



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oily albumen are analogous to those of Eupliorhla. Several sjiecies 

 of Ilieimifi have been described ; but there is really only one veiy 

 varied in form, 11. cdiiiDiujiis," a native, it is said, of India, and 

 now naturalized in all warm couutries. It there becomes arborescent, 



' See A. Gil. in Ann. <S'c Nat, ser. i. xvii. 

 312. 



' L. •Spec. ed. 1, 1007.— M. Ahg. Pynrli: 1017. 

 — A. afi-icnmts Mill. — R. nmericnniis Hort. — R. 

 armafita Andh. — Ji. Itadiits Keichh. — R ditjiia- 

 iun Nou. — R. europeens Nkks. — R. (fliiiiciiK 

 lIoiTMKC,. — R. hi/hridits Bnt-s. — R. imrntis Jacq. 



— R. Krappa Steud. — R. liei'is DC — R. lencn- 

 viirpiis Beutol. — R. liridiis Jacq. — R. miicriicar- 

 pus 8tf.u1}. — R. medicHS Foitsic. — R. viet/alos- 

 peniius Steud. — P R. pniticulatiiH Li.nk. — R. 

 pricHins liort. — R. purpurai-cais Beutol. — R, 

 riiffoitis Mill. — R. riitilan^ Desf. — R. san- 

 ijnliicns hort. — R. scahrr Beutol. — R. xpcciisn.^ 



