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are ill-developed or absent. The flowers form large axillary or 
terminal branching compound racemes, and are accompanied by 
caducous bracts and bractlets. 
The Carob,’ St. John’s Tree, or Locust Tree (Fr., Caroubier ; figs. 
120-122), has polygamo-dicecious flowers. In the hermaphrodite 
Ceratonia Siliqua (Carob tree). 
Fie. 120. 
Habit (3). 
the receptacle has a very peculiar form, like a large thick shallow 
porringer lined by a large fleshy quoit-shaped disk, filling the whole 
concavity of the receptacle.” On the rim of this are inserted five 
little thick sepals, at first imbricated in the bud, but early ceasing to 
overlap. The androceum is composed of five stamens superposed to 
the sepals, each consisting of a free subulate filament inserted under 
1 Ceratonia L., Gen..n.1167.—J., Gen.,847—  344.—Ceratia PLIN., ex ADANS., Fam. des Pl. 
Lamx., Dict., 1.635; Suppl., ii. 119; I7l.,¢.859.— ii. 319. ; 
Gaern., Fruct., ii. t. 146.—DC., Mém. Légum., 2 We pointed out above that the disk of 
ii. t. 23, fig. 114; Prodr., ii. 486.—Spacu, Suit. Arouna (figs. 118, 119) made it transitional 
& Buffon, i. 109.—Envu., Gen.,n.6809.—B. H., between the other species of Dialium and 
Gen., 574, n. 332.—Siliqua T., Instit., 578, t. Ceratonia (figs. 121, 122). 
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