GELASTRAGEM. 



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into three pannels.^ Each of these is surmounted laterally by two 

 distant halves of two different stylary branches and bears on the 



Buxus sempervirens. 



Fig. 28. Fructiferous branch. 



Fig. 30. Male flower, 

 diagram. 



Fig. 29. Male flower (»). 



Fig. 32. Female flower, diagram. 



middle of its internal surface a partition, on each side of which is 

 generally a descending seed. Its thick smooth integuments enclose 

 an abundant fleshy albumen, surrounding an embryo more or less 

 curved, with superior elongated radicle, and thick elliptical or oblong 

 cotyledons. The large anfractuose cavity of the seminal hilum is 



1 The dried endocarp separates entirely from the more exteynal layers of the pericarp. 

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