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irregular, trimerous; sepals three short, often green; petals three, 
elongate, often fused below; stamens three to four abortive, petaloid, 
one often absent, a sixth alone fertile and stamen-like. The petaloid 
Fig. 125. — Zingiber officinale. (Sayre.) 
stamens constitute the most attractive parts of the flower. Pistil, 
inferior, tricarpellary. Fruit, a capsule. Seeds, albuminous with 
both perispermic and endospermic albumen. 
