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stamens : five fertile, superposed to the sepals, each formed of a 
short free filament, and a two-celled extrorse anther, dehiscing upon 
the edges by two longitudinal clefts, and five oppositipetalous, trans- 
formed into petaloid plates, contorted in the bud, and forming alto- 
Sauvagesia erecta. 

Fre, 373. Fie. 370. Fie, 375. 
Fruit (3). Floriferous branch. Long. sect. of seed. 

Fie, 371. Fra. 372. 
Flower (3). Long, sect. of flower. 
gether a kind of second interior corolla! Between the androceum 
thus constituted and the perianth, is generally seen a large number 
of tongues, often swollen into a gland at the apex, and which have 
been considered as the elements of a disk? The gynæceum is free, 

! According to Payer (loc. cit.), “this second nothing but the exterior staminodes of a phalanx, 
corolla is only a disk deep fringed or not fringed, of which the inner petaloid plates form also a 
as in Passifloreæ.” part only distinguished from the exterior sta- 
? The form of the terminal gland much recalls minodes by their size and petaloid consistence. 
that of a sterile anther in some species. It is The glandular supports often lave their 
possible that these tongues, often compared to summits divided into two (rudimentary ?) cells. 
the stipitate or ramified glands of Parnassia, are 
