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NATURAL Hl.sTURV OF PLANTS. 



In the male flower, it bears first a calyx of fire (more rarely of four 

 or six) sepals, free or united at the base, quincuncially imbricated 

 or valvate in prœfloration. The alternate petals are the same in 



Ot'oton Tiiili}im. 



Fig. 19G. Fli^wer-Tiearina; and fruit-bearing branch [\). 



number, valvate or more or less imbricated in the bud, sometimes 

 too narrow for their edges even to touch. Between the petals is 

 seen an equal number of alternate glands (fig. 197), sometimes very 

 small, or even quite disappearing. Theaudroceum, in two verticils, 

 the pieces being often the same in number as the sepals or petals, is 

 often diplostemonous ; there are, in this case, five stamens alternate 



Kl. Gynamblosis TonuMcndecaiidra Eschr. He2>- 

 tttllon Rafin. Khhchiphiitum H. Bn. Lasingyne 

 Kl. Lemadema Kl. Medea Kl. Mieranlhis II. 

 Bn. Microcrotim Griseh. Maiiguia Chapel. 

 Myriogomphus Diedr. OcnUu Kl. Pulaiiosliyma 



Mart. Pe/alosfiyma Mart, (nee F. Muell.), 

 Pilir.ophylum Kl. Pudocalyx Kl. Podostacliys 

 Kl. Mieiiiccarpiii BoERH. Riciiioidfs T. StoH- 

 daiithiis H. Bn. Tiglium Kl. Timnndra Kl. (f) 

 Tridesmis Lour. 



