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hiscing longitudinally. The gynaceum, inserted in the bottom of 
the receptacle, consists of a shortly stipitate ovary surmounted by an 
incurved style, truncate or slightly dilated at its stigmatiferous 
apex. Along the vexillary edge of the ovary is a vertical placenta 
whose two lips each support an indefinite number of descending 
Toluifera Balsamum (Balsam of Tolu Plant). 
Fie. 198. 
Flower (4). 
Fie. 197. Fre. 199. 
Habit (3). Longitudinal section of flower. 
campylotropous ovules with their micropyles looking upwards 
and outwards. ‘The fruit is a rounded or slightly compressed 
coriaceous woody or even fleshy moniliform pod, sometimes opening 
late into two valves. To each dilatation of the pericarp cor- 
responds a descending exarillate campylotropous seed, containing 
within its coats an exalbuminous embryo with thick fleshy 
cotyledons and a superior radicle; this last may be short and 
nearly straight, or longer and inflexed. Sophora consists of trees, 
shrubs, and perennial herbs inhabiting all warm climates. Some 
