XL. BEYTHEOXYLE^. 



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ErytKroxylon. Erythroxjilon. 

 Embi-jo Pruit 



(mag.). (nat. size)* 



Ei'ythroxylon* Eryihroxylon. 



Fruit cut Vertical section 



transversely (mag.). of seed. 



Erythroxylon, 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Erythroxylon. 

 Dried fruit (mag.). 



on the aphyllous peduncles. Flowees ^ , regular, solitary or geminate, or fasci- 

 cled in the axis of the leaves or stipules ; peduncles 5-angled, gradually thickened at 

 the top. Calyx persistent, 6-partite, or rarely 5-fidj imbricate. Petals 5, hypogy- 

 nous, equal, appendiculate above their base within by a double ligule, lamella, or 

 rib, aestivation usually imbricate, rarely contorted. Stamens 10, inserted on the 

 receptacle ; filaments flattened at the base, and connate into a short tube, filiform 

 and free above ; anthers introrse, 2-eelled, ovoid-subglobose, dorsi-fixed, mobile. 



