370 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
out, and terminated at its base by a short and obtuse spur, which 
is directed downwards by two lateral ones, which are entire and 
rbate. The two upper petals, which are equally entire, are 
directed upwards. There are five stamens alternating with the 
petals ; they are nearly sessile, and lightly joined by their anthers, 
which are bilocular, and open from within by two longitudinal 
clefts. Each anther is surmounted by a little thin yellow tongue, 
which is a prolongation of the connective. In addition to this, 
two of the anterior stamens are provided at their base with a kind 
of tail, which lodges in the hollow horny substance of the lower 
Fig. 389.—The Violet, 
petal. The pistil is composed of a free ovarium, surmounted by 
an ascending style, swelling a little above the base, and eon 
in a vergate or rod-like hooked stigmata. In the interior of tl 
ovarium, which is unilocular, are three parietal placent®, char, 
with straight anatropal ovules. 
The fruit is a capsule, which opens in three valves, each having 
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a placenta in their midst. The seeds contain a straight embry : 
in the axis of a fleshy albumen. 
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