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with a sort of elongated scale, at first applied by its concavity to 
the ovary,’ and of a two-celled, introrse anther, dehiscing by two 
longitudinal clefts? The gynæceum is free and superior, composed 
of an ovary supported by a short, thick foot, round which the recep- 
tacle thickens into an inconsiderable glandular disk, surmounted by 
a style tapering towards the stigmatiferous apex, not thickened. 
Zygophyllum Fabago, 

Fra. 499. 
Long. sect, of flower (2). 

Fig. 497. 
Floriferous branch. 
Fie. 501. 
Seed (4). 
Fra. 500, 
Fruit. 
Fie. 502. 
Long. sect, of seed. 
The ovary contains five cells, superposed to the petals, and each con- 
taining numerous ovules, inserted in two series in the internal angle, 
descending, anatropous, with micropyle turned outwards and up- 
wards.’ The fruit is a capsule‘ with five angles, loculicidal, the seeds 
containing under their coats’ a not very thick fleshy albumen sur- 
rounding an embryo with elongated cotyledons. 2. Fadago is a suf- 

1 These tongnes are developed according to 
PAYER (op, cit. 69), “a little before the opening 
of the flower,’ and show thmselves first upon 
the receptacle itself, 
? The pollen, orange in colour, is “small 
ovoid; three folds; in water oval with three 
bands, bearing three very small papille.’ (H. 
Mout, in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 2, iii. 339.) 
3 They have two coats. 
4 The pericarp is outwardly glabrous and 
slightly fleshy in this species, with an endocarp 
also thin and almost pergameneous. It presents 
five prominent angles corresponding to the back 
of the cells, and which in certain species are 
developed into small wings. 
5 Three of them are distinguished: the ex- 
terior soft, cellular, greenish, swelling when in 
contact with water, bearing an umbilical linear 
cicatrice towards the middle of the length of its 
internal angle; a middle one harder, thin, 
brownish, much more enduring; an internal 
one thin and whitish, thickened only on a level 
with the cupule of the chalaza, with the albumen 
very adherent for almost the whole extent of its 
internal surface. 
