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X. COCHLOSPERMUM SERIES. 
Cochlospermum (fig. 343) has beautiful hermaphrodite regular 
flowers, with receptacle slightly convex, bearing five sepals* 
quincuncially imbricated, caducous, and five alternate petals, con- 
torted in præfloration. Higher up are inserted a large number of 
hypogynous stamens, each formed of a free filament,’ and an almost 
Cochlospermum Gossypium. 

Fra. 343. 
Flower. 
basifixed, elongated anther with two cells,‘ opening inwardly from 
the apex’ by an orifice sometimes very short, sometimes a little more 
elongated and constituted by two short clefts, which cireumscribe, 
in uniting above, a short triangular panel.’ The gynæceum is supe- 
rior, composed of a free one-celled ovary, surmounted by a tubu- 
lar style, with stigmatiferous extremity, entire or slightly dentate. 
In the ovary, in front of the sepals, are seen five falciform parietal 
placentas (or only three, the two lateral placentas disappearing), 
facing each other at their concave edge. Below they generally 
come in contact, so that the ovary at this level becomes pluri- 

1 K., Malvac., 6.—Cambess,, in Mém. Mus., 
xvi, 402.— Enpu., Gen. n. 5405.—PL., Sur la 
Nouv. Fam. des Cochlospermées (in Hook. 
Lond. Journ., vi. 306).—B. H., Gen., 124, 971, 
n. 1.—BENTH., in Jowrn. Linn. Soc., v. Suppl, 
78.—H. BN. in Adansonia, x. 259.—Maai- 
miliana Marv., in Flora (1819), 451.— Wit- 
telshachia Marv. & Zucc., Nov, Gen. et Spec.,i. 
80, t. 55. — Azeredia ARRUD. (ex ALLEM., 
Desenb. Arrud., ¢. ic.). 
2 Oceasionally four or six. 
3 Sometimes a little longer on one side of the 
flower than on the other. 
4 Each divided into two cellules in the greater 
part of their length. 
5 Often surmounted by a small point. 
5 PLANCHON has distinguished two subgenera : 
Diporandra, the anthers of which open by 
two pores, and Æucocklospermum, where there 
is only one. 
