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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 26S
Fig. 25. Lavatera arborea. Malvacece. Fruit cut verti-
cally and magnified : dieresile axile, compressed, 6-coqued ;
coques one-celled, one-seeded; seed peltate; embryo bent;
cotyledons plaited ; radicle basilary.
Fig, 26. RLcinus communis. Eupfiorbiacece. Regma cut
longitudinally and magnified ; three-celled, covered with a
pannexterne that separates; coques one-celled, two-valved,
one-seeded; placentarium under the tip; seed coated, carunculated,
perispermed, hanging.
a. Perisperm.
l. Embryo two-cotyledon, straight, in the middle; cotyledons
leaflike.
c. Caruncle.
d. Umbilical cord.
Fig. 27. The same, with one of the coques taken away
from the two others; placentarium central, columnar, threesided,
with three blunt beaks passing into the cells, regma
covered with soft spines.
Fig. 28. The same, cut transversely, showing the three
coques, emptied of their seeds.
Fig. 29. The seed of the same cut across; embryo twocotyledon.
Fig. 30. The seed cut lengthways; embryo nearly the
size of the albumen.