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are equally simple and alternate in the Turrwa (fig. 4G5), met with 

 in all the warm regions of the old world and having the flower of 

 Quivisia, with a very long staminal tube supporting the anthers 

 inside its upper opening, often accompanied outside by a collarette of 

 small blades whose number and shape are variable. The gamose- 



Twy(ea s^ricca. 



Fig. <l.fi5. Longitudinal section of flower. 



jwlous calyx has divisions of little depth, four or five in number ; 

 they become deeper in 2\ lanccolafa, of which a distinct genus has 

 also been made under tlie name of C(do(/r//uiii, and in MJiich the 

 petals remain a certain time adherent by the base of tiii'ir iulcniiil 

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