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maphrodite, and each enveloped in a more or less fleshy sac, 
persistent and thickening round the fruit, the opening being cut into 
five or six teeth. The calyx is formed of three sepals, imbricated 
or more frequently contorted in præfloration ; and the corolla of five 
petals contorted in the bud. Within the corolla is found a short 
tube almost membranous, with the upper edge cut straight, 
Leptolena multiflora. 

Fig. 229. Fre, 228. * Fie, 230. 
Gynæceum. Portion of the dise and Long. sect. of gynæceum. 
of the androceum (4). 

Fr. 231. Fie. 233. Fie. 232. FIG. 234. 
Induviate fruit (3), Seed (4). Long. sect, of induviate Transverse section of 
fruit. seed, 
dentate, crenate, generally described as a disc. Within the base 
ten stamens are inserted, of which five are superposed to the petals, 
and five alternate rather shorter, each formed of a free filament and a 
two-celled introrse anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts." The 
gynæceum is free and superior, composed of an ovary with three 
cells alternate with the sepals, surmounted by a style, the apex 

H. By., in Payer Fam, Nat., 263.—B. H., Gen., 1 These clefts are most frequently confluent at 
195, n. 1. the summit. 
