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ANDRCECIUM— 



Stamens.— -Perigynous, unequal, inserted on the edge of the disk; 

 declinate; in two whorls of five each; the outer whorl sterile, being 

 reduced to mere slender antherless filaments ; the inner whorl 

 fertile, callous and villous at the base, superposed to or opposite the 

 petals. Hooker and Brandis say that the sterile stamens are 

 sometimes seven in number. Note that the sterile stamens are 

 superposed to or opposite the sepals. Le Maout and Decaisne say 

 that the stamens are 8 to 10, and line the base of the calyx. Baillon 

 observes that "the androacium is most developed towards the anterior 



' side of the flower, so that the fertile stamen superpose^ to the 

 enveloped anterior petal is the longest of all ; the posteriory pair 

 are the shortest." (Vide Supplementary Plate L.) 



Filaments. — Flattened and hairy at the base, free below, and 

 above ; slightly petaloid, connivent, united above the middle, un- 

 equal ; the posterior ones longest ; those opposite the calyx- 

 segments shorter and imperfect. 



Anthees.— Yellow, occasionally reddish ; dorsifixed, consequently 

 introrse ; one-celled or simple as Lindley calls them, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Brandis describes them as oblong ; Wight and 

 Arnott describe them as peltate ; Le Maout and Decaisne describe 

 them as ovoid-oblong. 



Connective. — Thick, convex. 



Pollen.— Ovoid with three folds ; in water it becomes spherical, with 

 three papillose bands (H. Mohl, Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, III 343 

 — quoted by Baillon). 



Disk. — Concave; lining inside of calyx-tube, with a short free 

 margin. Baillon, as referred to already, describes the disk as 

 glandular; the colour of the disk is green. 



GYNCECIUM— 



Ovaby.— Superior, stipitate, hairy, lanceolate, one-celled, but com- 

 posed of three carpels. 



Style.— Slender, filiform, terminal, cylindrical, tubular (Baillon) ; 

 obliquely recurved, but not obliquely inserted (Wight and 

 Arnott) ; undilated at its stigmatiferous apex. 



Stigma.— Perforated, simple (Lindley). Le Maout and Decaisne 

 say it is truncate ; Kurz says it is perforate and truncate. 



