474, NATUHAL ll/STonV oJ' PLAXTS. 



l\icc witli that of the staminal tube, but nevertheless are fluully 

 detached. 



II. TRICIIILIA SElilES. 

 The species of TrichiUa' (fig. 460-470) have regular and herma- 

 phrodite flowers. They have generally a calyx with five imbricate 



Tiic'iilia woiidiuiclts. 



Fig. 467. Lonsitnditial 

 section of Uowor. 



Fig. 46G. Flower {\). 



Fig. 470. Opcr. fiuit. 



Fig. 409. Flower, without the 

 cox'olla and androceam. 



Fig. 468. Flower, with 

 corolla removed. 



divisions, five alternate imbricate petals, and ten monadelphous 

 stamens, superposed, five to the divisions of the calyx, and five to 

 the petals. All are united below in a tube for a variable extent of 

 the filaments, then free and surmounted by a bilocular introrse anther, 

 dehiscent by two longitudinal clefts,^ often accompanied outside by 

 an equal number of alternate, simple or bifid, prolongations of the 

 summit of the tube. The gyuieceum is free, with an ovary having 

 two or three biovulate cells, surmounted by a style with stigmati- 

 ferous apex dilated to a head or disk, divided iuto two or three more 

 or less distinct lobes. The ovules are descendcnt, anatropal, the 

 micropyle directed upwards and outwards, sometimes collateral, 



' L. Gen. 528.— Abans. Fam. dcs PL ii. 313. 

 _J. Gcii. 205. — PoiB. Diet. viii. 56 ; Supj)!. v. 

 339. —DC. Prodr. i. fi22 (p.art.).— A. Juss. 

 Mdiic. 83, t. 7. — Spach, Snit. a Biiffim, iii. 194. 

 — Endl. Gen. d. 5.541.— B. H. Gen. 337, n. 27. 

 — U. 15n. Payer Fnm. Nat. iOo.—JJariilns P. 

 r,K. Jnm. 216.— DC. P.mIi: ii. 91 {B,nbi//nx). 



—Elcaja FoKSK. Fl. JSi/.-Arab. Ill .—Portcaia 

 Cav. Diss. 369, t. 215, ll&.—T.iriicsia Riem. 

 Syn. 86. — Mnfid-eiia Behtol. Misc. Bot. ix. t. 2. 

 —Aerilin Gkiser. Fl. Brit. JT.-Ind. 129.— 

 P/iolncidia Gkiseb. Inc. cit. 



= The pollen rciembles that of Mdia (p. 471, 

 note 1). 



