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but the four petals are destitute of appendage ; the widened receptacle 

 is furnished with a large, flattened, unilateral disk ; the fruit is capsu- 

 lar, loculicidal, then in part septicidal ; the three cells are separated 



Coisignia boriomen. 



Fig. 393. Male flower (f). 



Pig. 394. Longitudinal section of male flower. 



Fig. 395. Male flower with Fig. 397. Seed (f). Fig. 398. Longitudinal Fig. 396. Fruit. 

 Sie perianth removed. section of seed. 



finally from the columella. Sometimes the coat is nearly woody ; some- 

 times, as in the Malagash species, it is vesiculate and coloured. In 

 this case Cossignia completely represents the irregular form of Har- 

 pullia ; the exarillate and exalbuminous seeds have an embryo rolled 

 up like that of Koelreuieria (fig. 398). The leaves are imparipinnate 

 or trifoliolate. Loxodiscus^ a shrub from New Caledonia, is closely 

 allied to the preceding genera. Its five sepals and four or five 

 petals, bordered by small globular glands, are imbricate. The 

 excentric ovary, accompanied by a large cupula-shaped unilateral 



