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COROLLA. — Alternate with the sepals, free, entire, acutely re- 

 curved. 



Petals. — Acuminated, linear-lanceolate, twice as long as the sepals ; 

 often longer. 



Note that the sepals and petals remain unchanged after flowering 

 (Kurz). ^ 



STAMENS. — Usually nine ; all fertile. One of these is nearly 

 twice as long as the rest ; the length of the remaining stamens, how- 

 ever, is by no means uniform ; some are smaller than others, often 

 alternately so. Baillon notes [op. cit.) that " They are all verticillate, 

 2-seriate." 



Filaments. — Connate at the base, free upwards ; adnate to the 

 disk, " Which is prolonged upwards," says Baillon, " in the shape of a 

 glandular ring." It is on this disk that the petals are situated, f 



Anthers. — 2-celled ; iutrorse ; longitudinally 2-rimose ; basifixed. 

 The anther of the longest filament is twice as large as that of the minor 

 ones. It is of a bright crimson colour. The anthers of the minor 

 filaments vary in colour from orange-yellow to crimson on this side 

 of India. 



PISTIL. — In the male flowers minute, with a very short style. 

 In the hermaphrodite flowers distinct and well-developed. 



Ovary. — In the hermaphrodite flower free ; campylotropous ; 

 superior ; § one-celled ; obovoid or obcordate. Baillon describes it as 

 " compresso-obovate, or obcordate," hence gibbous. This is a more 

 accurate description I think. 



Style. — Simple or solitary, corresponding to the one-celled nature 

 of the ovary ; filiform ; excentric ; becoming convolute, as if to bring 

 the simple stigma in contact with the large anther of the long filament 

 (Roxburgh). 



Stigma. — Minute ; often tinged crimson. 



Ovule. — Solitary, long, conical ; inserted at the summit of a suberect 

 ascending funicle. The funicle is thus lateral. The ovule, says 

 Baillon {op. cit.\ is the same as that of its congener Mango, at 



* Forest Flora of British Bnrma, vol. i, page 302. 

 t Wight and Arnott's Prodromus Florae Indicse, vol. i, page 168. 



§ Hoi ker puts a query against this, it is not known why. (Vide Flora British India, 

 vol, ii, page 8)— K. R. K. 



