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Plate XXXIV. 



Htemadictyon ovatum, portion of a plant in flower and fruit. Fig. 1, a flower in bud. Fig. 2, the corolla 

 expanding : both natural size. Fig. 3, the same expanded, showing the exserted appendages and 

 the partially exserted stamens. Fig. 4s, the same, cut open, showing the crenulate ring in the mouth, 

 the position of the appendages and of the cohering stamens, the filaments inserted in five tufts 

 of hairs, and the ten longitudinal nervures of the tube. Fig. 5, the buccal ring. Fig. 6, the five 

 appendages. Fig. 7, the filaments of the stamens seated in the tufts of hairs : all magnified. Fig. 8, 

 the cohering stamens. Fig. 9, a stamen separated : both natural size. Fig. 10, the same, much 

 magnified. Fig. 11, the calyx, with the sepals thrown back to show the inner scales, the disk of five 

 free lobes, the oyaries, style, clavuncle, and stigmata, magnified. Fig. 12, one of the two follicles 

 grown to its full size. Fig. 13, a seed : both natural size. 



Plate XXXV. 



A. Laseguea latiuscula, portion of a plant in flower, showing its lateral very imbricated inflorescence and 



its fruit. Fig. 1, a flower in bud, with its basal bract much longer than the pedicel and calyx. 

 Fig. 2, the pedicel and calyx. Fig. 3, the corolla expanded : all natural size. Fig. 4, the corolla, cut 

 open, showing the simple dextrorse convolution of its segments and the position of the stamens, 

 magnified. Fig. 5, an anther. Fig. 6, its filament : both more magnified. Fig. 7, the calyx, with 

 the sepals thrown back to show the inner scales, the 5-lobed disk, the ovaries, style, clavuncle, and 

 stigmata, magnified as in fig. 4. Fig. 8, the two erect follicles. Fig. 9, a seed with its apical 

 coma : both natural size. 



B. Forsteronia rejracta, portion of a plant in flower and fruit. Fig. 1, one of its minute flowers, natural 



size. Fig. 2, the same in bud, much magnified. Fig. 3, the same with the corolla expanded, showing 

 the exserted cone of anthers. Fig. 4, a stamen, seen on its inner face, with its inflexed apex. 

 Fig. 5, the same, shown on its edge. Fig. 6, the same, on its outer face. Fig. 7, the calyx, with the 

 sepals thrown back to show the 5-lobed disk, the ovaries, style, clavuncle, and stigmata : all equally 

 magnified. Fig. 8, one of the two torose follicles, 10 inches long, with many long strangulations. 

 Fig. 9, a seed with its apic&l coma : both natural size. 



