III. CALYC ANTHER. 1(>1 



Flowers g , regular, appearing witli the leaves or earlier, terminal or axillary, often 

 sweet-scented or aromatic. Calyx coloured, segments numerous, many-seriate, im- 



Chimonanthus, Plower. 



Galycanthus l(Evigalus. 



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Chimonanthus. 

 Carpel, entire and cut vertically (raag.)« 





Chimonanthus. Flower cut vertically. 



Chimonanthus. Diagram. 



Chimonanthus. 

 Flower-bud tmag.). 



bricate, all alike, or the outer bracteiform and the inner petaloid, rising from a 

 receptacular cup (calyx -tube of old botanists), short, urceolate. Corolla 0. Stamens 

 numerous, inserted on a fleshy ring lining the calyx-throat, outer fertile, 'inner 

 sterile, persistent or deciduous, free, or coherent at the base ; filaments short, subu- 

 'late or filiform ; anthers extrorse, 2-celled, ovoid or oblong, adnate, dehiscence longi- 

 tudinal. Ovaries numerous, inserted on the inner wall of the receptacular cup, free, 

 1-celled, 1-ovuled; styles as msmj a.s ovaries, terminal, simple, filiform or compressed, 

 subulate ; stigmas undivided, obtuse, terminal ; ovules solitary, or rarely two, of which 

 one is smaller, superimposed, ascending from the bottom of the cell, anatropous, 



