M A I. Pion I ACE JE. 



ovary succeeds a fruit foriued of thvee small sainaraî, surrounded by 

 a marginal wing and bearing on the back, like those of Tristellatcia^ 

 a small ridge unequally dentate on its free edge. 



IV. GAUDICHATIDIA SERIES. 



This small group has been formed of some genera whose principnl 

 character consists in the diminution of the androoeum (whence the 

 name of 3Ieiosfemones). The flowers, on the type 5, have in fact 

 stamens not exceeding six in number, and those generally correspond 



Schifaiinia elcgnns. 





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Fig. 449. Flower (±). 



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Fig. 4.50. FloTicr nitli pprianth removed {\). 



to the petals that are wanting. Again, several of them are trans- 

 formed into sterile staminodes. There is otherwise scarcely a con- 

 stant form except in Schwaimia^ (fig. 449, 450), by wliich the study 

 of this series may be commenced. The flowers are regular and 

 hermaphrodite. The quinquefidal or quinquepartite calyx bears 

 seven or eight glands. 'i'ho alternate unguiculate petals have a 

 fimbriate limb. The stamens are six in number and all fertile, 

 superposed five to the sepals and the sixth to a petal. The filaments 



'Endl. Gen. n. 5563. — A. Juss. Mal- 



pigh. 351, t. 22.— ;B. H. Oen. 262, n. 49. 



— H. Bn. in Payer Fmn. Nat. U2. — Fim- 



VOL V, 



briaria A. Joss, in A. S. H. Fl. Urns. Mer. 

 in. 63, t. 173 (not Nees). — Spach, Suit, à 

 iiiijoii, iii. 155. 



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