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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



II. SYMPHONIA SEKIES. 



One of the two plants made known by Aublet ' under the name 

 Moronobea coccinea, has more recently received that of Symphonia 3 

 globulifera. Its flowers are regular, ordinarily hermaphrodite, 3 with 



Symphonia (Chi ysopia) fasciculate. 



Fig. 367. Flower. 



Fk. 36S. Diagram. 



Fig. 369. Flower, without 

 corolla. 



Fig. 371. Flower, corolla 

 and andrcecium removed. 



Fig. 370. Long. sect, 

 of flower. 



a concave receptacle. The calyx is formed of five sepals, arranged 

 in the bud in quincuncial prefloration, unequal, 4 and the corolla of 

 five alternate petals, contorted in prefloration. 5 Within the corolla 



1 Guian. t. 113, fig. a-j (excl.). i. 72, t. 48. 



2 L. f. Suppl. 49, 303.— Pl. et Tki. Amu Sc. * Perhaps polygamous. 



Nat. sér. 4. xiv. 286.— B. H. Gen. 173, n. 11.— 4 Shorter and thicker as they are exterior in 



11. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 271.» — f Blackstonia the bud. 



Scop. Introd. n. 1256. — Aneurisms Presl. ^ijmb. 5 As a whole nearly globular in tho bud. 



