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mounted by a style almost immediately separated into two thick 
elongated branches, furnished within and upon the reflexed edges 
Barbeuia madagascariensis. 

Fia, 41. 
Fra. 43. 
Flower (+). Gynæceum, open (5). 
with stigmatic papillæ. In each of the ovary cells is a placenta, 
basilar or sub-basilar, supporting a campylotropal ovule. The micro- 
pyle is inferior and lateral, as in Zimeum, turned in such a way that 
that of one cell being placed on the right side, that of the other on 
the contrary is turned to the left. The fruit 
is, according to Dureritr-THouars, capsular 
and bilocular, each cell containing an arillate 
seed. The only species known of this genus' 
-is a slender climbing shrub of Madagascar, 
with alternate entire petiolate leaves,’ articu- 
lated at the base. The flowers are arranged 
in short axillary racemes with compressed axis, 
each of them having a rather long pedicel 
which swells towards its upper part. It is 
thus seen that with the vegetative organs of 
Seguieria, &e., Barbeuia has the gynæceum 
Barbeuia madagascariensis. 

Fie. 42. 
Diagram, 
of Limeum, but with two ovary cells always united and close together. 

' B. madagascariensis STEUD., Nom., 101, 
2 They become black in desiccation, and have a disagreeable odour. 
