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natubal history of plants. 



In tlie male flower, it bears first a calyx of five (more rarely of four 

 or six) sepals, free or united at the base, quiucuncially imbricated 

 or valvate in prtefloration. The alternate petals are the same in 



Crotoii Tiijlinm. 



Fig. 196. Flower-bearing and fruit-bearing branch {\). 



number, valvate or more or less imbricated in the bud, sometimes 

 too narrow for then- edges even to touch. Between the petals is 

 seen an equal number of alternate glands (fig. 197), sometimes very 

 small, or even quite disaijpearing. Theandroceum, in two vertieUs, 

 the pieces being often the same in number as the sepals or petals, is 

 often diplostemonous ; there are, in this case, five stamens alternate 



Kl. GynamblodsToKRMindecmidra Eschk. IIip- 

 tallon Rafin. Kluhxhiphi/tiim H. Bn. Lasinyi/nc 

 Kl. Levcadeuia Kl. Mcdca Kl. Micranthis H. 

 Bn. Microcrotm Griseh. Uomjuia Chapel. 

 Mijiiogomphm Dieur. Ocalia Kl. Falanostigma 



Mart. ri/alortir/»m Mart, (nee F. Muell.), 

 Piliiiophiftmu Kl. Pudccahjx Kl. Podostacht/s 

 Kl. JRiciiHcar/ms BoERH. Siciiioidis T. Stoli- 

 dtiiitluis II. Bn. Tiff/ium Kl. Tiiiiiiiidi-a Kl. (?) 

 Tiidesmia Lour, 



