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into three paimels,^- Each of these is surmounted laterally by two 

 distant halves of two different stylary branches and bears on the 



Buxm sempermrens. 



Fig. 30. Male flower, 

 diagraip. 



Fig. 29. Male flower (f). 



Fig. 28. Fructiferous branch. 



Fig. 32. Female flower, diagram. 



middle of its internal surface a partition, on each side of which is 

 generally a descending seed. Its thick smooth integuments enclose 

 an abundant fleshy albumen, surrounding an embryo more or less 

 curved, with superior elongated radicle, and thick elliptical or oblong 

 cotyledons. The large anfractuose cavity of the seminal hilum is 



' The dried eadooarp 

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entirely from the more external layers of the pericarp. 



