ME LI ACE J;:. 



481 



contorted petals, and staminal filaments united in an urceolate sack 

 in which, the anthers, eight to ten in number, are included. The 

 fruit is a large capsule whose partitions partially disappear, and 

 whose seeds, in the form of irregular pyramids, are collected on the 

 rudiment of a central columella. They are beautiful trees growing on 

 the sea coast of all tropical regions, and whose alternate leaves are 

 compound-pinnate. 



IV. CEDEELA SEEIES. 



The flowers of Cedrela^ {&g. 477-482) are hermaphrodite and 

 regular. The gamosepalous calyx has five teeth, imbricate at first. 



Cediela Toona. 



Pig. 477. Flower (a). 



Fig. 479. Flower, with 

 perianth removed (f ). 



Fig. 478. Longitudinal section 

 of flower. 



Fig. 481. Seed(f). 



Fig. 480. Dehiscent fruit. 



Fig. 482. Longitudinal 

 section of seed. 



Sometimes it is torn irregularly at the time of anthesis. Five petals 

 form the corolla ; they are valvate, imbricate or contorted in prse- 

 floration. The androceum is isostemonous ; and the stamens, in- 



1 p. Br. Jam. 158.— L. Gen. n. 277.— J. Gm. 

 266.— GjBRTN. Fruet. ii. 84.— Lamk. Diet. i. 

 660; Suppl. ii. 143; III. t. 137.— DC Prodr. 

 i. 624.— A. Juss. Meliac. 102, t. 12.— Spach, 

 Suit, a Buffon, iii. 173.— Endi-. Gen. n. 5556.-7- 



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Payee, Organog. 112.— B.H. Gen. 339, 994, n. 

 35. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 406. — Jonsonia 

 Adans. Fam. de PL ii. 343. — f Pterosiphon 

 TuECZ. Bull. Moic. (1863), i. 589. 



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