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cordata likewise. In a excelsa, of Myrtacex, we 
find the calyx of Punica, indurated and coalesced with 
capsular elements, thickened, nec the external = tec of 
" tic walnut, which belongs to another, onnected, 
us, and at the same time cupulate type. Bertholletia 
red a wooden baat atalt _— ples large oily seed, in re- 
semblance to Juglandee. In ace, as in and 
deros, we have a sebtacouead, woody, Da fee Pe Ra 
myrtaceous a with the insignificant seed of Salicarie. 
offers a most striking resemblance in rut . 
by its prbicntar etals and dense brow of stamina, to the 
ceous pees Pe shee such as Crategus, while the fruit of } Myrtus itself 
bles an Amelanchier’s. Combretacee seem to join Myr- 
tas, and Philadelphus likewise. Philadelphus repeats the 
form of Ludwigia, of Onagrariz, and seems to formal- 
ly round off the m yrtiflorous cireuit back into its commence- 
ment: while repeating the ee odor of the preced- 
sponden carulont pouihpoks 
‘aia it “likewise is recalls Melas 
