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male flowers and the anthers (PI. XXIV., A fig. 6). The petals 
have a faintly reddish colour which later on changes into 
brown ; also after the pollination the folds of the petals 
become smoothed out and fade. 
The appearance of the ovary is already mentioned. No 
style is developed. The stigmas are 6, bilobed, so that there 
are 12 lobes of the same size (PL XXIV., A, fig. 10, st ). 
These are narrowly lanceolate with long points, and at the 
base somewhat enlarged (PL XXIV., A, fig. 11). Excepting 
a part of the top they are clothed on their inner sides and 
on their edges with rather long stigma-papillae. These 
papillæ are especially large, with rather thick walls, on the 
edges, where they are also extended laterally, so that the 
stigmas, especially at the base, look as if fringed (PL 
XXIV., A, fig. 11). It is also noteworthy, that the tops of 
the stigmas completely lack papillæ. The stigmas contain 
plenty of tannin cells. They are parallel to the axis of the 
flower and thus form an erect group to catch the pollen 
grains when the flower is in vertical position (PL XXIV., A, 
fig. 9, 10). 
The gynœceum is composed of six carpels w‘hich form a 
unilocular ovary divided into six cavities (fig. 5). The 
Fig. 5.—Transverse section of a young ovary ; the ovules enclosed in 
mucilage and the placentae split into air-chambers (15 x 1). 
