474 NATaRAL niSTOTiV OF PI.ANTR 



foce with that of tlic staraiual tube, but nevertheless are finally 

 detached. 



II. ÏRICHILIA SEMES. 



The species of TrichiUa ' (fig. 4G6-470) have regular and herma- 

 phrodite flowers. They have generally a calyx with five imbricate 



Tlic ''■ ilia ipotidiuiflis. 



Fig. 467. Longitudinal 

 section of flower. 



, 470. Open fruit. 



Fig. 466. Flower (|). 



Fig. 4fi9. Flower, without the 

 corolla and androceum. 



Fig. 468. Flower, with 

 corolla removed. 



divisions, five alternate imbricate petals, and ten monadelphous 

 stamens, superposed, five to the divisions of the calyx, and five to 

 the petals. All are united below in a tube for a variable extent of 

 the filaments, then free and surmounted by a bilocular introrse anther, 

 dehiscent by two longitudinal clefts,^ often accompanied outside by 

 an equal number of alternate, simple or bifid, prolongations of the 

 summit of the tube. The gynajceum is free, with an ovary having 

 two or three biovulate cells, surmounted by a style with stigmati- 

 ferous apex dilated to a head or disk, divided into two or three more 

 or less distinct lobes. The ovules are descendent, anatropal, the 

 micropyle directed upwards and outwards, sometimes collateral, 



' L. Geii. 528.— Adans. Fum. des PI. ii. 343. 

 _J. Gen. 265.— PoiR. Diet. viii. 56 ; Suppl. v. 

 339. —DC. Prodi: i. 622 (part.).— A. Juss. 

 Meliic. 83, t. 7.— Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iii. 194. 

 — Endl. Geii. n. 6541.— B. H. Gen. 337, n. 27. 

 — H. Bx. Pni/er Fam. Nut. iOô.—Barhili.s P. 

 Bk. Jam. 216.— DC. Projr. ii. 91 {Biuhi/lun). 



— Elcaja FoRSK. Fl. ^g.-Arab. 127. — FoHesia 

 Cav. I)is.H. 369, t. 215, 2\&.—Turpesia Rœm. 

 St/,>. 86. — Mafurcira Bertol. Misc. Bot. ix. t. 2. 

 —Aerilia Griser. Fl. Brit. ir.-Jnd. 129.— 

 Pholacidia Griseb. loc. cit. 



- Tlie pollen resembles that of Mflia (p. 471, 

 note 1). 



