MILKWEED FAMILY 



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hood-like appendages, each with an incurved horn borne on 

 the stamen tube and forming a crown around the stigma 

 (Fig. 27, A); anthers pressing against the lobes of the stigma ; 

 the pollen clinging together in tough, waxy or fijie-grained 



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Fig. 27. Flower of Asrlejiias syrUixa 



A, entire flower; B, vertical section; C, diagram; D, details of pollen-masses 

 and glands, ca, calyx; c, corolla; hd, hood; An, horn; o, anther; «, stig- 

 ma; 0, ovary; g, gland; p, pollen-mass. (All considerably enlarged.) 



masses. Ovary free from the calyx tube, of 2 carpels, more 

 or less united below but unconnected above ; styles 2 ; stigmas 

 5-angled ; ovules several-many. Fruit consisting of 1 or 2 

 pods. The flowers are very highlj^ specialized for pollination 

 by insects (see below, under Asclepias). 



