MALPIGHIAGE^. 



441 



ovary succeeds a fruit formed of tlireo small samarte, surrouuded by 

 a marginal wing and bearing on the back, like tbose of Tvidellateia^ 

 a small ridge unequally dentate on its free edge. 



IV. GAUDICHAUDIA SERIES. 



This small group has been formed of some genera whose pruicipal 

 character consists in the diminution of the androeeum (whence the 

 name of Meiostcmones). The flowers, on the type 5, have in fact 

 stamens not exceeding six in number, and those generally correspond 



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Fig. 449. Flower {\). 



Fig. 450. Flower with pori.inth removed (|). 



to the petals that are wanting. Again, several of them are trans- 

 formed into sterile staminodes. There is otherwise scarcely a con- 

 stant form except in Schwannia^ (fig. 449, 450), by wliieh the study 

 of this series may be commenced. The flowers are regular and 

 hermaphrodite. The quinquefidal or quinquepartite calyx bears 

 seven or eight glands. The alternate unguiculate petals have a 

 fimbriate limb. The stamens arc six in number and all fertile, 

 superposed five to the sepals and the sixth to a petal. The filaments 



'Emdi.. Gen. n. 5.5C3. — A. Jnss. Mnl- briaria A. Juss. in A. S. H. Fl. Bins. Mn: 



pigh. 351, t. 22.— 'B. H. Oen. 262, n. 49. iii. 03, t. 173 (not Nees). — Spacii, Suit, a 



— n. Bn. in rayrr Finn. Xrr/. 312. — F/m- Dnfon, Hi. I.i5. 



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