. The natural history of plants. Botany. 160 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Bosqueioi, a shrub of Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa, has the gynsecmm of Lanessania, with the involucre and monandrous flowers of Scyphosyce; but the monandrous flowers are not sur- rounded by a calyx, and the common receptacle of the inflorescence has an upper surface more or less oblique,, according to the age of the flowers. In Piratinera (of which Brosimum forms part) belong- ing to tropical America, the receptacle takes the form of a small sphere the entire surface of which is covered with monandrous male
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 160 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Bosqueioi, a shrub of Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa, has the gynsecmm of Lanessania, with the involucre and monandrous flowers of Scyphosyce; but the monandrous flowers are not sur- rounded by a calyx, and the common receptacle of the inflorescence has an upper surface more or less oblique,, according to the age of the flowers. In Piratinera (of which Brosimum forms part) belong- ing to tropical America, the receptacle takes the form of a small sphere the entire surface of which is covered with monandrous male flowers, destitute of calyx and separated by bracts with peltate summit, and the female flower, most frequently single in the inflorescence, is found imbedded in the interior of the sphere. Ficus Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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