92 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
bud. The corolla is formed of five twisted petals united at their 
base with that of the tube of the androceum which is in a single 
piece, dilated at the base, traversed in its length by the styles, 
divided above into an indefinite number of filaments and sur- 
Malope trifida. 

Fra, 147. Fie, 146, Fra. 148, 
Gynæceum (5). Young expanded flower. Fruit (3). 
mounted by a one-celled extrose anther, dehiscing by a longitudinal 
cleft. The gynæceum is composed of a great number of carpels 
whose independent ovaries are arranged in vertical’ series upon the 

1 More or less distinct according to the age, and arranged, according to PAYER, upon five promi- 
nent angles of the receptacle superposed to the sepals. (See A. Dickson, in Adansonia, iv. 207.) 
