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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



divided into two little developed stigmatiferous lobes. The calyx 

 has four or five elongate, pointed lobes, often glandular or papillose 

 below, within and at the margin. The corolla, most frequently 

 regular straight, tubular-campanulate or funnel-shaped, 4, 5-gonal, 

 has, it is said, reduplicate and valvate lobes, but much oftener 



Fortlandia {Coutaporila) Ghiesbreghtiana. 



Fig. 324. Bud (f). 



Fig. 329. Seed (f). 



Fig. 327. Long. sect, of 

 base of flower. 



Fig. 32.5. Flower. 



Fig. 326. Diagram. 



Fig. 328. Dehiscing fruit. 



Fig. 330. Long, 

 sect, of seed. 



imbricate at the margins. The androecium is formed of as many 

 stamens, the bilocular anthers of which are generally basifixed, and 

 the filaments, inserted quite at the bottom of the corolla, are at this 

 point united by a short little-prominent ring, but free throughout 

 their remaining extent. The two cells enclose a placenta attached to 

 the partition by a narrow support and bearing most frequently a great 

 number of ovules. The fruit is an obovate capsule, more or less 



