412 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
celled, introrse, oscillating anther dehiscing by two longitudinal 
clefts... The gynæceum is placed above upon the large base of the 
trunk of the receptacular cone; it is composed of five oppositi- 
petalous carpels, each formed of a one-celled ovary, tapering above 
Quassia amara, 

Bic, 467. 
Fruit. 

ia. 465. Fra. 464. Fia. 466. 
Flower. Floriferous branch (+). Flower without corolla 
and stamens (2). 
into a long, slender style, which unites with the other style, and is 
twisted with them to form a long subulate column, with stigma- 
tiferous apex, not dilated. In the internal angle of each is a placenta 
supporting a descending anatropous ovule, with superior and exterior 
micropyle. The fruit is formed of five drupes (or a less number), 
1H. Moun (in Ann, Se. Net., sér. 2, iii. 2 It has two coats. The first is very thick; 
339) describes the pollen as “ovoid, three the second, atropous, forms beyond the nucleus 
grooves; in water, ovoid with three narrow a small cylindrical neck. 
bands and very small papillæ. Stmaba bicolor 
Zucc., Quassia amora (without papillæ ?).” 
