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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



II. SYMPHOOTA SERIES. 



One of the two plants made known by Aublet ^ under the name 

 Moronobea coccinea^ has more recently received that of Sijmjplionia ^ 

 glohulifera. Its flowers are regular, ordinarily hermaphrodite,^ with 



Symphonia {Chysopia) fasciculata. 



rig. 367. Flower. 



Fig. 368. Diagram. 



..-'.^ 



Fig. 369. Flower, without 

 corolla. 



Fig. 371. Flower, corolla 

 and androecium removed. 



Fig. 370. Long. sect. 

 of flower. 



a concave receptacle. The calyx is formed of five sepals, arranged 

 in the bud in quincuncial prefloration, unequal,* and the corolla of 

 five alternate petals, contorted in prefloration.^ Within the corolla 



^ Guian. t. 113, fig. a-j (excl.). 



2 L. F. Suppl. 49, 303.— Pl. et Tki. Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. ser. 4 xiv. 286.— B. H. Gen. 173, n. 11.— 

 H. Bx. Payer Fam. Nat. lll—'^Blaclisto-uia 

 Scjp. Introd.n. 12.56. — A iewi-iciis Prbsl. Symb. 



i. 72, t. 48. 



•'' Perhaps polygamous. 



* Shorter and thicker as they are exterior in 

 the bud. 



5 As a whole nearly globular in the bud. 



