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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Ludwigia, at the level, or may fall short, of the summit of the ovary. 

 The flowers are tetramerous, regular or nearly so,' with eight stamens. 



Epilohium spicatum. 



Fig. 434. Flower. 



Fig. 435. Dehiscing fruit. 



Epilolium tpicatum. 



Fig. 436. Seed (f). 



Fig. 437. Long. sect, of seed. 



the filaments of which are somewhat dilated at the base and de- 

 flexed/ and the slender style terminates in a stigmatiferous head, 

 enlarged in mass or divided into four lobes of very variable form. 

 The fruit is loculicidal and four-valved, and the seeds are finally 

 borne on a central column, free or nearly so. About fifty *' species 



Spach, Suit, d Suffon, iv. 396.— JjsimacAion 

 Tausch, he. cit. — Crossostigma Spach, Nouv, 

 Ann. Mm. iv. 328. 



' In the section I^aimachion (DC). 



2 The pollen has ' seeds loosely united four 

 to four ; papillae large, JB. montanum, E. hirsu- 

 ium " (H. MoHir, Ann. iSc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 332). 



' As in Chammnerium. 



< Eeiohb. Fl. Crit. t. 170, 180, 189, 341, 342. 

 .— GrEEN. et GoDE. Fl. de Fr. i. 576. — Oliv. Fl. 

 Ti op. Afr. ii. 486.— Torr. et 6r. Fl. N.-Amer. 

 i. 486. — Hook. p. Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 76.— C. Gat, 

 Fl. Chil. ii. 346.— £o<. Mag. t. 76.— Walp. Rep. 

 ii. 90 ; V. 666 ; Ann. ii. 534 ; iv. 678. 



