TILIACE A. 173 
having transverse false partitions between the seeds. Corchorus 
(figs. 192-194) has the same flowers as Honckenya, but generally of 
Sparmannia africana. 

Fie, 189. 
Seed (5). 

Fra. 188. 
Fertile stamen (5). 

Fra. 186. Fie. 190, 
Floriferous branch (2). Long. section of seed. 
smaller dimensions. All the stamens are fertile in most cases, and 
the anthers, at first introrse, re- 
main so until the end, or their 
upper extremity or even both are 
reflexed and finally look towards 
the exterior side of the flower 
(fig. 193). 
In certain species of the genus 
Corchorus the number of stamens 
Sparmannia africana. 

7 : Fre. 187. 
1S definite, or nearly so. There Longitudinal section of flower (4). 
