0ELA8TRA0EZE. 



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tiferous prominence. But the petals, large and very distinctly imbri- 

 cated or twisted in the bud, are so closely united below by means of 

 the alternate staminal filaments that the latter seem inserted on the 



Sahiadora persica. 



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Fig, 17. Hennaphrodite flower. 



Kg. 16. BudCf). 



Fig. 18. Long; sect, of flower. 



Fig. 19. Fruit (4). 



Fig. 21. Embryo. 



Fig. 20. Long. sect, of fruit. 



corolla which appears in adult age like a perfectly gamopetalous 

 envelop (fig. 17, 18). The Salvadoras, of which one or two species 

 are found in tropical Asia and Africa, have opposite leaves accom- 

 panied by small stipules, and numerous small flowers, arranged 

 in simple or more or less ramified spikes. 



V. HIPPOCKATE SEEIES. 



The flowers of Hippocratea} are closely analogous to those of 

 Euonymiis, regular and hermaphrodite. The receptacle, more or less 

 flattened, bears a short calyx of flve sepals, free, or united only at the 

 base, imbricated or nearly valvate, with five alternate petals, longer, 

 erect or expanded, imbricate or valvate in the bud. The andrcecium 

 is ordinarily formed of three fertile stamens, each with a free filament, 

 generally enlarged near the base and recurved at anthesis, inserted 



' Hvppoeratea L. 6m. n. 54. — J. Qen. 251. — 

 Lamk. Diet. 395 ; Suppl. i. 606 ; HI. t. 28.— 

 DC. Prodr,. i. 567.— Tcep. Diet. So. Nat. Atl. 

 t. 162.— Spaoh. Suit, a Bvffon, ii. 399.— Endl. 

 Qen.n. 5700.— Pater, Orgamg. 163, t. 35.— H. 

 Bn. Foyer Fam. Nat. 326.— B. H. Gen. 369, 



998, n. 36.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 623.— Cos Plum. 

 Gen. 8, t. 35. — Pereshia Velloz. Fl. Flum .34, i. 

 t. 81 (not Mill, nor Plum.). — Bejueo IitEPL. It. 

 iOi.—Daphnikon Pohl, Flora (1825), 183 

 (from Endl.). — ? Momualda Tr. Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 b6i. 5, xvi. 370.— Caervea Tb. (ex B. H.). 



