MELIAOEyE. 



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are equally simple and alternate in the. Turrcea (fig. 465), met with 

 in all the warm regions of the old world and having the flower of 

 Quivisia, with a very long staminal tube supporting the anthers 

 inside its upper opening, often actiompanied outside by a collarette of 

 small blades whose number and shape are variable. The gamose- 



Tw 



Tcea seftcea. 



Pig. 4fi5. Longitudinal section of flower. 



palous calyx has divisions of little depth, four or five in number ; 

 they become deeper in T. lanceolata, of which a distinct genus has 

 also been made under the name of Calodrymn, and in which the 

 petals remain a certain time adherent by the base of their internal 

 VOL. V. 3 p 



