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and 2, which is posterior, is also more developed than 4 or 5. There 
are five equal petals, free or united into a tube below, alternating with 
the calyx-lobes and valvate in the bud. The androceum consists of 
ten stamens superposed to the perianth-leaves. Below the filaments 
form a tube, united for some distance to the petals ; they then become 
Parkia biglobosa. 
Fie. 24, Fra. 25. Fra. 26. Fra. 27. 
Inflorescence (3). Flower (8). Longitudinal section Young flower-bud 
of flower. with its axillant bract (4). 
free before splitting up into ten exserted linear strips, each supporting 
an introrse two-celled anther of longitudinal dehiscence, tipped by a 
little gland. The free central gynzceum consists of a sessile or 
stipitate one-celled ovary, including an indefinite number of ana- 
tropous ovules, and surmounted by an exserted terminal style, 
truncate or scarcely dilated at its stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is 
a straight or bowed narrow elongated pod, dehiscing by two valves 
and enclosing in suberous pulp a variable number of seeds. ‘These 
contain a fleshy embryo, with thick cotyledons whose decurrent 
bases envelope the radicle. Parkia consists of seven or eight species 
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