COBNACEJE. 



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Fig. 67. Portion 

 of male catkin. 



Fig. 58. Cymes of male flowers 

 and axillant bracts. 



our gardens and the longest known, is easily studied. The receptacle 

 has the form of a small reversed cone. Around its base is a small 

 calycinaU collar, very little developed and divided into four hard 

 perceptible teeth, of which two are lateral, one anterior and one 

 posterior. With these teeth 



alternate an equal number Gm-rya eiupuca. 



of valvate petals, much 

 more developed, furnished 

 with hairs above and with- 

 out. The Andrcecium is 

 composed of four altemi- 

 petalous stamens, each 

 formed of a filament and a 

 basi-fixed,bilocular, introrse 

 anther dehiscing by two 

 longitudinal clefts. In the 



centre of the flower is a rudimentary gyntecium, composed of two 

 very small carpellary leaves, sterile and lateral. In the female 

 flower, the floral receptacle is hollowed to a 

 sac and lodges in its cavity an adnate ovary, 

 surmounted by a style also divided into as 

 many erect or reflexedstigmatiferous branches 

 as there are carpels in the gynsecium, that is 

 most frequently two,^ which are lateral, and 

 more rarely three. With the carpels alter- 

 nate in equal number parietal placentae, more 

 or less prominent, one anterior, the other 

 posterior, when the number is two. In each 

 is inserted a descending anatropous ovule, 

 with micropyle directed upwards and out- 

 wards,^ and hooded with a thick obturator 

 forming the dilated funicle above it. The 

 female perianth is absent as we shall find in 

 the species (fig. 59) forming the genus Fadyenia.* 



Garrya Fadyeni. 



Fig. 69. Long. sect, of 

 female flower (^). 



In the others 



' Considered as a simple thickening of the 

 receptacle by those 'who call sepals the foHoles 

 here described as those of the corolla. The 

 latter in the bud are covered with long hairs, 

 especially above and outside. 



' Barely 3 or even i, chiefly in the terminal 



flower which may be abnormal in cultivated 

 plants. 



^ Its coat is simple and very incomplete, as is 

 that of several Cornels. 



* EnM.. Gen. Suppl. ii. 30. 



