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been placed in a genus Saccoc/luttis,^ there arc besides these ten fer- 

 tile stamens, where the disproportion between the anther cells 

 and the connective is most pronounced, ten interposed staminodes 

 represented by as many subulate tongues united below to the 

 fertile stamens. These staminodes become fertile in their turn in 

 most of the American species, constituting in the genus a sec- 



Souiniri avenarium. 



Fig. 89. Bud. Fig. flO. Flower Fig. 91, 92. Long. sect, of 



witkout corolla. gjnœceum and gjnœceum. 



Fig. 93-9.5. Stamen face, 

 back and long, section. 



tion Hiimirium (fig. 90). In another section bearing the name 

 Vantanea ^ (fig, 96, 97) the stamens are all fertile and still 

 more numerous, for from twenty to thirty have been counted, and 

 even as many as fifty or sixty. The gynîBceum is free and superior, 

 formed of an ovary with five alternipetalous cells,^ surrounded at the 

 base by a disk which is thick, circular, almost entire, or more or less 

 thin, membraneous, unequally cut upon the edges, or deeply divided 

 into ten or fifteen pointed tongues. The style is simple, cylindrical, 

 erect, swollen at apex into a small stigmatiferous head almost entire 

 or slightly lobed. In the inner angle of each cell is seen a placenta 

 supporting two descendent ovules, with micropyle directed outwards 

 and upwards, and collateral, or nearly superposed by the elongation 

 of the funicle of one of them : the other may abort more or less 



gular upon the equator ; the papillœ pretty large 

 upon the bands of the angles. 



1 Mart. Nor. Qcn. et Spec. ii. 146. — Endi. 

 Oen. n. 5485. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 208 ; x. 

 368.— B. H. Gen. 247, n. 3. 



2 AuBL. Guliin. 572, t. 229.— J. Gen. 434.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 5383.— B. H. Gen. 246, n. 1.— H. 



'Bi!. m Adansonia, x. 368. — Zemntsrin Schreb. 

 Gen. 358. — Heller ia Nees et Mart, in Nov. Aet. 

 Nat. Cur. xii. .S8, t. 7— Endl. Gen. n. 5487.— H. 

 Bn. in Adansonia. i. 209. 



' They are sometimes incomplete ; sometimes 

 they are more than five in number. 



