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Fiff. 3. A longitudinal section of tlic same, showing several ovules erect in the basal angle of each cell. 

 Fiff. 4. A transverse section of the same, which has 3 cells, with erect ovules : all somewhat magnified. 

 Fig. 5. The androphorum^ viewed sideways. 

 Pig. 6. The same straightened, to show the basal ring charged with staminiferous appendages, the long 



intervening bare ligula, and the reversed hood attached by a fleshy knob in the summit of the 



ligula, the hood being echinated outside (contrary to the general rule) with numerous sterile 



appendages. 

 Fig. 7. Three of the appendages of the hood. 



Fig. 8. Three of the staminiferous appendages of the basal ring : all nat. size. 

 Fig. 9. Two of the same, with the anthers before and after dehiscence : magnified. 

 Fig. 10. A seed, which is much compressed, with a broad circumambient membranaceous wing^ placed 



round an oblong testaceous escutcheon. 

 Pig. 11. The same, seen edgeways. ^ • 



Fig. 12, The very thin inner integument^ wliich fills the escutcheon and encloses the exalbuminous 



embryo. 



Pig. 13. The embryo removed, showing its form when embraced by the integument. 



Fig. 14. The same expanded to exhibit the long terete club-shaped radicle pointing to the basal hilum, 



and shortly curved at its upper extremity, where it is continuous with 2 broad plicated foliaceous 



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cotyledons equal to it in length : all nat. size. 



Kg. 1. A flower : nat. size. 



Section C. Analysis of Cariniana. 



Fig. 2. The same : greatly magnified. 



Kg. 3. Two of the six petals, seen from within and sideways. 

 %. 4. The inferior ovary, seen from above : all equally magnified. 

 g. 5. A vertical section of the same, showing the 6-dentate cupular free border of the calyx, the annular 



disk, the somewhat concave vertex, the long terete style, the inferior cells containing few or 



more erect ovules fixed near their base. 



Jg- 6. A transverse section of the same, showing the three cells and the ovules in each : both more 



magnified. 



^- 7. The androphorum, on the same scale as fig. 2, showing its very gibbous tubular form, slightly 



nvex at its summit j it is fringed on the margin and echinated over its whole surface inside, 

 with staminiferous appendages in many series, and has no basal ring or ligula : in this respect 

 It approaches Gustavia and Grias. 



^- «■ The same, seen sideways. 



cut open, to show the many series of staminiferous appendages, the upper ones being 

 ^g- 10 xT^^^^' *^^ otters gradu ally shortening in length to that of the lower short series : magnified. 

 Fiff ll" Ti.^ ^PP^^*^^ges of the upper and lower series : more magnified. 



% ^ S same' '' ^''' ''"^''^'^' 



%• 13 Th ♦T^' ^ *^^ anthers after dehiscence, seen sideways and from above. 



escut li ^^ ^ont, with its long basal membranaceous wing and the apical embryoniferous 



^' ^''- The emb ^^ ^^^^^ i^itegument removed from the escutcheon, the space of which it fiUs. 



*^te ba 1 T,-^i ^"'^^^^ °°^ *t^t integument, consisting of a terete descending radicle pointing to 

 0^' nat ' ' ^'^^ved suddenly at its summit, and continuous with the descending cotyledons : 



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