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with the jjetals, aud five a little shorter superposed to them. Each is 

 formed of a free filament iacurved in the bud, and a bilocular anther, 

 dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts, introrsc, but with the face 



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Fig. 197. Diagram of nmlo l'\;;. I'JS. Long. sect, of female Hower (Ç). Fig. 199. Diagram of 

 flower. female flower. 



Fig. 201. Fruit. 



Fig. 200. Long. sect, of flower (f). 



looking outwards before authcsis, on account of the incurvation of 

 the filament. In the female flower, the calyx, of toner valvate than 

 imbricated, has sepals which may be fi-om four or five to ton or a 

 dozen. The petals, rarely as much developed as in the male flower 

 and having the same form, are generally narrow, short, glanduliform 

 and may even disapjiear altogether. They generally alternate with 

 five independent or more or less united glands of an hypogynous 

 disk surrounding the base of a sessile ovary, generally trilocular. 

 In each cell is found a descendent ovule, with exterior and superior 

 micropylo, capped by an obturator of varied size. The style is 

 early divided, often even from the base, into three bifid or several 

 times dichotomous branches, sometimes even much ramified. The 

 capsular, tri-coccate fruit is provided with a central columella. The 

 bivalve shells each contain a descendent seed, analogous to that of 

 the Euphorbea and Riciiim (fig. 202), whose micropyle is accom- 



