INFLORESCENCE FINISHED. 



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at the apex (that is, the centre of the 

 cluster) unfolds first; and thus arrest- 

 ing growth in that direction, it defines 

 the further development of the inflores- 

 cence. Its simplest expres- 

 sions are the Cyme, Fascicle, 

 Glomerule, Verticillaster. 



227, Cyme. Flowers with 

 pedicels on a rachis, the pedi- 

 cels reaching a nearly level 

 height, as in the racemose 

 corymb. "When the plant has 

 alternate leaves, as in the Hare- 

 bell (Fig. 144), the cyme may 

 develop into a cymose raceme or 

 cymose panicle ; when the leaves 

 are opposite, as in the Wrightia 

 (Fig. 145), Euphorbia (Fig. 146) 



Fig. 145. — Wnghtia tinctoria. 



and Privet, or whorled, as in the Oleander, the cyme may become a 



Fig. 14ti. — A, Euphorbia coroUata. B, 

 section of involucel ; $ fl. in the centre, 

 tf flfl. around it. 0, c? fl.» with bract. 

 D, section of fr. E, centiul column of 

 pistil, with 1 nut divided. F, ad. 



Fia. 147.— a, Coffee (Coffea ambica); 

 berry, trans, sec. 



Compound Cyme (Wrightia, Oleander, Elder), or a Cymose Panicle 



