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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



In tlie male flower, it bears first a calyx of five (more rarely of four 

 or six) sepals, free or tmited at the base, quiacuncially imbricated 

 or valyate in prsefloration. The alternate petals are the same in 



Ci'oton Tiyliwii. 



Fig. 196. Flower-tearing and fruit-tearing branch {\). 



number, valvate or more or less imbricated in the bud, sometimes 

 too narrow for their edges even to touch. Between the petals is 

 seen an equal number of alternate glands (fig. 197), sometimes very 

 small, or even quite disappearing. The androceum, in two verticUs, 

 the pieces being often the same. in number as the sepals or petals, is 

 often diplostemonous ; there are, in this case, five stamens alternate 



Kl. Gynamhlosia ToiOL.Semleeandra Esohb. Sep- 

 tttllon Rafin. Elotsehiphytum H. Bn. lasiogyne 

 Kl. Lmeadema Kl. Medea Kl. MicranthU H. 

 Bn. Mieroeroton Geiseb. Mouguia Chapel. 

 Mi/riogomphus Diedb, Oealia Kl. FdUmostigma 



Maet. Petalottigma Makt. (neo F. Muell.), 

 Pilitiophgtum Kl. Fodocalyx Kl. Podostachys 

 Kl. Sieinocarpm Boebh. Eieinoidea T. Stoli- 

 danthus H. Bn. Tiglium Kl. Timandra Kl. (?) 

 Tridesmia Loub, 



