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NAT ORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



II. STMPHOmA SERIES. 



One of the two plants made known by Aublet » under the name 

 Moronohea coccinea, has more recently received that of SympTioma 

 globulifera. Its flowers are regular, ordinarily hermaphrodite,^ with 



Symphonia [Chiysopia] fasciculata. 



Fig. 367. Flower. 



FiK. 368. Dia'Tam. 



Fig. 369. Flower, -without 

 corolla. 



Fig. 371. Flower, corolla 

 and androecium removed. 



Fig. 370. Long. sect, 

 of flower. 



a concave receptacle. The calyx is formed of five sepals, arranged 

 in the bud in quincuncial prefloration, unequal,* and the corolla of 

 five alternate petals, contorted in prefloration.^ Within the corolla 



1 Guian. t. 113, fig. a-J (excl.). 



2 L. p. Suppl 49, 303.— Pl. et Tin. Am. Sc. 



Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 286.— B. H. Gen. 173, n. 11.— 



H. B.v. Fayer Fam. Nat. 272 — ? FlacJcstoiiia 



Scjp. Iiitrod. n. 1256.— 4 leu -hem Phesl. Syitib. 



i. 72, t. 48. 



^ Perhaps polygamous. 



■• Shorter and thicker aa they are exterior in 

 the bud. 



' As a whole nearly glohular in the bud. 



