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development.' The gynaîcium is formed of a single carpel, the 

 ventral suture of which is opposite the axis of the catkin, and its 

 unilocular ovary is surmounted by a long style, papillous and stig- 



Lcifmritijloridanea. 



Fig. 216. Long. sect, of fruit (?). 



Fig. 214. Male flower (f). 



Fig. 215. Long. sect, of female 

 inflorescence (J). 



niatic on its entire internal surface, whilst its summit turns out- 

 wards. 3 In the internal angle of the ovary, a parietal placenta 

 supports a single descending ovule, incompletely anatropous, 3 

 with micropyle directed upwards and outwards. The fruit 

 is an oblong drupe, the exocarp of which is of little thickness, 

 coriaceous, and its hard putamen encloses a descending seed, with 

 thin albumen, covering a straight embryo with short superior radicle 

 and greenish fleshy plano-convex cotyledons. L. Jioridana Chapit., 

 the only known species of this genus, inhabits the marshes of the 



1 Here and there are female flowers with one thick margins of which are reflexed and papil- 

 or more fertile stamens within this false calyx. lous. 



3 It is traversed by a vertical furrow, the 3 " Amphitropous." (Chapm.) 



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