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superposed to the sepals, five to the petals. The latter are the 
smaller, and form a whorl internal to the former. ach stamen is 
formed of a declinate filament, villous or glandular at the base, and 
Cesaipinia Sappan, 
Fig. 45. 
Habit (3). 
an introrse two-celled anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.’ 
The gynazceum, composed of a single carpellary leaf superposed to 
the anterior sepal, consists of a sessile ovary tapering at the tip into 
a style, whose stigmatiferous apex forms a funnel, with a large gaping 
mouth of variable size and a more or less thickened reflexed rim. On 
the side next the posterior petal the ovary contains a parietal placenta 
bearing several descending anatropous ovules’ in two vertical rows ; 
the micropyles look upwards and outwards—that is, to the anterior 
2 The pullen is spherical in C. pulcherrima (H. Mont, Ann, Se. Nat. sér. 2, iti. 
(formerly referred to the genus Poinciana), 342). 
with a punctate outer coat, and three flat ? They have two coats in the species we have 
strongly punctate bands meeting at the poles under cultivation, C. pulcherrima and Gilliesii. 
