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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



it is surmounted by a circular epigynous disk, surrounding the base ^ 

 of an erect style generally short/ divided above into two thick 

 obtuse stigmatiferous lobes, covered internally with papillae. In 



Cinchona officinalis. 



Fig. 339. Floriferous branch {^ 



the internal angle of each ovarian cell is a placenta bearing a great 

 number of pluriseriate ascending anatropous ovules, with inferior 

 micropyle/ The fruit is a capsule, surmounted by the non-accrescent 

 and hardened sepals; more or less elongate and separating, by 

 division of the partition, into two mericarps each opening by the 



» Here suddenly contracted. 

 » With regard to the length of the style the 

 flowers may be dimorphous like those of many 



other Eubiacece, and the fact is perhaps of 

 importance in fecundation. 



3 With a single coat, very incomplete. 



