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EXPLANATION of the PLATES. 



PLATE I. 



Quassia Simaruba Mas. 



i. A flower of its natural fize. 



2. The fame magnified. 



3. The calix of the natural fize* 



4. The fame magnified. 



5. The corolla. 



6. The ten {lamina. 



7. Two (lamina, the infide of one, the outfide of another, pre- 



fented to view. 



8. The flefhy mafs in the centre of the flower. 



9. The fame magnified, to fhew in what manner the ten fla- 



mina and fquamas are placed. 



PLATE IT. 



Quassia Simaruba Feminea. 



I. 2. 3. 4. The fame as in the male flowers. 



5. The piftillum. 



6. The flyle. 



7. The ten imbricated fquamae. 



8. One pericarpium or drupa. 



9. The horizontal feclion of the fame. 



10. The nut. 



II. A perpendicular feclion of the fame. 

 12. The nucleus or kernel. 



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