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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



face with that of the staminal tube, but nevertheless are finally 

 detached. 



II. TEICHILIA SERIES. 

 The species of TncUlia ' (fig. 466-470) have regular and herma- 

 phrodite flowers. They have generally a calyx with five imbricate 



Tric'iilia spondioides. 



Fig. 467. Longitudinal 

 section of flower. 



Fig. 466. Flower (|). 



Fig. 470. Open fruit. 



Fig. 469. Flower, without the 

 corolla and androceam. 



Fig. 468. Flower, with 

 corolla removed. 



divisions, five alternate imbricate petals, and ten monadelphous 

 stamens, superposed, five to the divisions of the calyx, and five to 

 the petals. All are united below in a tube for a variable extent of 

 the filaments, then free and surmounted by a bilocular introrse anther, 

 dehiscent by two longitudinal clefts,^ often accompanied outside by 

 an equal number of alternate, simple or bifid, prolongations of the 

 summit of the tube. The gynseceum is free, with an ovary having 

 two or three biovulate cells, surmounted by a style with stigmati- 

 ferous apex dilated to a head or disk, divided into two or three more 

 or less distinct lobes. The ovules are descendent, anatropal, the 

 micropyle directed upwards and outwards, sometimes collateral, 



1 L. Gen. 528.— Adans. Fam. des Tl. ii. 343. 

 —J. Gen. 265.— PoiB. Diet. viii. 56 ; Siippl. v. 

 339.— DC. Prodr. i. 622 (part.).— A. Juss. 

 Melitc. 83, t. 7.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 194. 

 — Endl. Gen. n. 6641.— B. H. Gen. 337, n. 27. 

 — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. i05. —Sai-iiliis P. 

 Bb. Jam. 216.— DC. Prodi: ii. 91 {Barbi/liis). 



— Meaja Forsk. Fl. Mg.-Arah. 127. — Portesia 

 Cat. Diss. 369, t. 215, 216.— Toi-pesia Roem. 

 S^n. 86. — Mafureira Bbrtol. jifisc. Bot. ix. t. 2. 

 — Acrilia Guiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 129. — 

 Pholacidia Geisee. loe. cit. 



• Tlie poUen re&embles that of Melia (p. 471, 

 note 1). 



