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organisation of the whole flower is well shown in the 

 diagrammatic figures 208 and 209, drawn by Dr. Wie- 

 land to represent the flower in an expanded condition. 



FlG, 209. — Cycctdeoidea ittgeus. — Plan of the bisexual flower, showing the central 

 ovuliferous cone, the whorl of thirteen compound stamens, united at the base, and 

 bearing synangia on their pinna;, and a series of the hairy bracts. The diagram is 

 •about on the same scale as Fig. 208, and shows the flower as it would appear, seen 

 from above, if all its parts were fully expanded. From Wieland. 



These diagrams are based on the species Cycadeoidea 

 ingens^ in which the number of stamens is less than in 

 C. dacotensis. It will be noticed that the arrangement of 

 the parts is just the same as in a typical Angiospermous 



