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short calyx with four sepals, imbricated and slightly united at their 
base! Higher is inserted a thick coriaceous gamopetalous corolla 
detached circularly by its base at anthesis, and falling in like a sort 
Maregravia umbellata. 

Fia. 269. Fra. 270. Fria. 271. Fra. 272. 
Bud (?). Diagram. Longitudinal section Flower without 
of flower. the perianth. 

Fria. 274, Fie. 275. Fia. 273. Fra. 276. Fie. 277. 
Fruit. Fruit open crosswise. Gynæceum. Seed (8). Longitudinal section 
of seed. 
of cone, dome, or cap. In its upper part alone from two to four small 
unequally imbricated teeth are seen, but sometimes with great diffi- 
culty, representing the free summits of the petals. The stamens are 
inserted immediately above the corolla, with which they have no 
adherence. They are each formed of a filament united, at the base 
only, with the neighbouring filaments in most of the species, and of 
a two-celled introrse anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. 

Lamk. Dict., iii. 710 ; Suppl., iii. 589.—LAMK., 1 Two of them are lateral, and enveloped by 
Til., t. 447.—DC., Prodr., i. 565.—Turp., in the posterior and the anterior. This latter 
Dict. Se. Nat., Ati., t. 154.—Spacu, Suit. à may perhaps also represent the axile bract of 
Buffon, vi. 123—Enpu., Gen, n. 5461.— the flower raised to its receptacle upon the 
B. H., Gen. 181, n. 3.—H. BN., in Payer pedicel; in that way the calyx would only be 
Fam. Nat., 265.—LeM. & Done. Tr. Gén., 333.  composed of three leaflets. 
