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numbers! as unisexual glomerules, the female flowers being accom- 
panied by small herbaceous bracts. 

VI. GYROSTEMON SERIES. 
The first species known of the genus Gyrostemon G. ramulosus’ (figs. 
66-71), has dicecious regular, monoperianthous flowers. The convex 
Gyrostemon ramulosus. 

Fra. 67. 

Fra. 70. 
Longitudinal section of 
female flower. 

Fie. 68. 
Longitudinal section of male 
flower. 

Fic. 66. 
Male floriferous branch. 
Fra. 71. 
Female flower (+). Dehiscent fruit (4). 
receptacle, in the shape of a surbased dome, is, in the male flowers 
(figs. 66—68), quite covered with stamens, surrounded by a short 

1 Often from one to three for the males; the n. 5264,—Linpu., Veg. Kingd., 282.—Moa., 
females are often ternate, the two lateral being 
younger than the mesial, 
2 Desr., in Mém. Mus., vi. 16, t. 6,7; viii. 
115, t. 10.—Turp., in Dict. Se. Nat, All, 
t. 280.—DC., Prodr., i. 516.—ENDL., Gen, 
Prodr., 38.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 156, t. 5 
(incl. : Codonocarpus A. CunN., Cyclotheca 
Mog., Hymenotheca ¥, MUELL.). 
# Dusr., loc. cit., t. 6, 7, 10, fig. a—Brnru., 
Fl. Austral., v. 147, n. 3. 
