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of a free erect filament and a bilocular anther, primarily introrse/ 

 dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. The female flower is composed 

 of a small gamosepalous (3alyx,2 in the form of a truncated mem- 

 branous cup, and of a superior gyrisecium. Its sessile ovary has 



, Cannabis sativa. 



Fig. 132. Female flower 

 enclosed in biact. 



Fig. 131. Female floriferous 

 branch. 



Fig. 129. Male inflorescence. 



Fig. 135. Induviate Fig. 134. Long. sect. Fig. 130. Male Fig. 133. Female 

 fruit (f) of female flower. flower (|) flower (|). 



Fig. 136. Long, 

 sect, of fruit. 



primarily two cells of which only one remains at maturity, and it is 

 surmounted by two stylary branches, articulate at their base, and 

 clothed with stigmatic papillae. On the side of the ovarian cell is 

 a placenta bearing a single descending, anatropous ovule, with 



^ The lines of dehiscence may become lateral, 

 then slightly extrorse. The pollen is " spherical ; 

 three small umbilica surrounded by a, large 

 halo; external membrane transparent" (H.' 



MoHL, Ann, Se. Mt.sii. 2, iii, 313). 



2 It is often little developed, and it has been 

 admitted that it may even be abortive. 



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