ME LI ACE. I':. 



481 



contorted iiotals, and stamiual filaments united in an nrceolate sack 

 in which the anthers, eight to ten in number, arc included. The 

 fruit is a large capsule whose iwrtitious imrtially disuj^pear, and 

 whose seeds, in the form of irregular pyramids, arc collected on the 

 rudiment of a central columella. They are beautiful trees growing ou 

 the sea coast of all tropical regions, and whose alternate leaves are 

 compound-pinnate. 



IV. CEDEELA SERIES. 



The flowers of Cednia ^ (fig. 477-482) are hermaphrodite and 

 regular. The gamosepalous calyx has five teeth, imbricate at first, 



Cedrcla Toona, 



Fig. 477. Flower (^). 



FiR. 479. Flower, with 

 jjerianth removed C;). 



Fig. 478. Longitudinul section 

 of ilower. 



Jig. 48). Seed(?). 



Fig. 480. Dehiscent fruit. 



Fig. 482. Longitudinal 

 suction of seed. 



Sometimes it is torn irregularly at the time of anthesis. Five petals 

 form the corolla; they are valvate, imbricate or contorted in pric- 

 floration. The androceum is isostemonous ; and the stamens, in- 



1 p. Br. Jam. lo8.— L. Gen. n. 277.— J. Gen. 

 266. — GnKT.v. Fritcl. ii. 84. — Lamk. Did. i. 

 660; Suppl. ii. 113; lit. t. 137.— DC. Piodr. 

 i. 624.— A. Ji-ss. JUiiiuc. 102, t. 12.— Spacu, 

 Nuil. a Viiffnii, iii. 173. — ExuL. Gen. n. 5550. — 



VOL. V. 



Payer, Oiganng. 112.-1!. H. Oen. 339, 994, n. 

 35. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. iW.—Jonsoiiia 

 Adans. Fum. (ie PI. ii. 343.— i* PtcroHiplwn 

 TuBcz. Bull. M'l.'c. (1863), i. 589. 



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