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flowers penedy repeating the habit of Maseslisade. (Magnolia, 
Adans 
The wa rentle type is already initiated in many columnif- 
erous forms, with a foliaceous plicate, curved embryo in a mo- 
nospermous samaroideo-appendaged carpic element, as in Gy- 
rostemon likewise 
The calycine peculiarity of Dipterocarpus and Lophira, two 
_ Of the five calycine segments being alately increased, is that 
of Polygalee likewise, of which, in Securidea, in the “solitary 
iented Sees ne ee oF nity con- 
ceous Dipteroc rocarpus, Trigonia, etc., and Hippoeastane 
These forms, with amplified calyx, _pelargonoid ane, and 
huge conferruminated scatadivaene as in Tropeolum, “<< cone 
resent an affinity in habit to Gruinales, plaeed in this 
y Endlicher, fbale | by total connections they claim a ponith - 
intermediate ‘between Umbellifere and Rheades, Endl. In- 
— Bon se ge of Vochysiacew and Melianthus, wheth- 
