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Monococcus echinophorus' is an Australian plant, whose vegetative 
organs, infloresence and floral organization form a type nearly allied 
to Peliveria® It differs from the latter inasmuch as its flowers are 
polygamous (and that often in the same inflorescence, where female 
flowers are placed below and male ones at the summit, while some 
hermaphrodite flowers are found between the two) ; the stamens also, 
whose summits incline downwards, are often as many as ten or 
twelve in number; the fruit, larger and shorter, has hooked prickles not 
only towards the summit but upon the whole surface in great num- 
bers ; finally its embryo, constructed moreover like that of Petiveria, 
but with cotyledons less dissimilar, is accompanied by a much more 
abundant albumen. 
Sequieria floribunda. 

Fia. 53. Fia. 54. Fira, 55. 
Flower (4). Longitudinal section of flower. Gynæceum (5), 
Seguieria’ (figs. 53-57) is analogous to the preceding genera in the 
organization of the gynæceum, reduced also to a single carpel; 
but the fruit and the seed present rather striking differences, 
while the androceum is always composed of a large number of 
stamens. The calyx is regular, composed of five, more rarely of six 
sepals, imbricated in the bud. The stamens.are nearly hypogynous, 
formed of a free filament and of an anther with two lateral cells, 
often becoming slightly extrorse, or even introrse, dehiscing by 
clefts near the edges. The free one-celled ovary only encloses one 
subbasilar campylotropal ovule with micropyle looking downwards 
and almost in front; it is surmounted by a flattened style, forming 

1 Fragm. Phyt. Austral. i. 47.—Brnva., Fl, Fam. des Pl., ii. 443.—J., Gen., 440.—ENDL., 
Austral., v. 144. Gen., n. 5254—MoQ., Prodr., 6.—Sequiera 
2 Of which it could scarcely constitute simply Porr., Dict., vii, 52; Suppl, v. 124.—SPRENG., 
a section. Syst., ii. 605. 
3 LœæeL., Z¢.,191.—L., Gen., n. 676.—ADANS, 
