XXIX. CHLANACE A. 

There is in this small family a genus with diplostemonous 
androceum, which we will study in the first place. It is the genus 
Leptolena multiflora, 

Fie. 226. Fie. 222. Fie. 227. 
Bud, without involucel Floriferous branch. Flower, without 
and calyx (4). perianth, 

Fra. 225. 
Diagram, 

Fig. 223. Fie, 224. 
Bud (5). 
Bud, without involucel. 
4), the flowers of which are regular, her- 
Leptolena (figs. 222-23 
GATE 

1 Dur.-Tn., Hist, des Vég. Rec. dans les Iles  SraoH, Suit. à Buffon, iv. 55.—Linpu., Veg. 
Austr, @ Afr., 41, t, 11.—DC., Prodr., i. 521.— 
Kingd., 486, fig. 385,—Enpt., Gen., n. 5399.— 
