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(fig. 296-301). These flowers are polygamous or dioecious, with 

 four or more often five parts. In the latter the receptacle, nearly- 

 flat or slightly convex, bears a calyx with five short imbricate 

 divisions, and five alternate petals, very much longer, also imbricate 



Schinus Molle. 



Fig. 296. Hermaphrodite 

 flower (f). 



Fig. 297. Diagi-am. 



Fig. 298. Longitudinal section 

 of flower. 



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Fig. 300. Dry Fruit (I). 



Fig. 299. Hermaphrodite flower 

 with the perianth removed. 



Fig. 301. Transverse 

 section of fruit. 



in the bud. More inwardly are found two verticels of five stamens, 

 superposed, five to the teeth of the calyx and five shorter ones 

 to the petals. All are formed of a free filament inserted outside 

 the base of an annular disc, with ten small alternate lobes ; 

 and of a bilocular introrse anther dehiscent by two longitudinal 

 clefts.' The gyneeceum is free, sterile in the male flowers, formed 

 in the female by three carpels, two of which are abortive in the 

 ovary. The cavity of the third encloses an ovule supported 

 on a short funicle, sometimes (fig. 298) inserted on the side of the 

 cell, and turning its micropyle inwards and upwards. The ovaiy is 

 surmounted by three styles, each terminated by a stigmatiferous 

 head. The fruit is a drupe," with a thick stone generally traversed 



' The pollen is " ellipsoid ; three folds ; in 

 water, globular, having three hands with throe 

 papilla-." (H. Mom., in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 2, iii. 310.) It is the same in several species of 



of Rhus; also in the Mar/nifera indi'en and 

 Anacardiimi occidcntah, but without papilla-. 



- The epicarp is often thick, brittle, glabrous, 

 glossy ; the mesocarp is generally slight. 



