. The natural history of plants. Botany. 64 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. pletely or nearly so at the adult age, and the two lateral are usually only represented by two staminodes, very short in comparison with the fertile stamens. All are inserted slightly perigynously upon the edge of the receptacle, and the fertile stamen is formed of a free Vuehysia Pig. 128, 129. Entire stamen. Transverse sect. Fig. 127. Portion of the inflorescence (\). Fig. 130. Dehiscent fruit. Fig. 131. Open seed. filament and a bilocular introrse anther with two distinct cells corresponding to the edges of
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 64 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. pletely or nearly so at the adult age, and the two lateral are usually only represented by two staminodes, very short in comparison with the fertile stamens. All are inserted slightly perigynously upon the edge of the receptacle, and the fertile stamen is formed of a free Vuehysia Pig. 128, 129. Entire stamen. Transverse sect. Fig. 127. Portion of the inflorescence (\). Fig. 130. Dehiscent fruit. Fig. 131. Open seed. filament and a bilocular introrse anther with two distinct cells corresponding to the edges of the connective, and each dehiscing by a longitudinal cleft.^ The gynseceum occupies the centre of the receptacle; it is formed of a three-celled ovary, surmounted by a style swollen into a club and presenting towards the obtuse summit an oblique stigmatiferous surface. In the inner angle of each cell, two of them being posterior and one anterior, are two collateral, descendent, incompletely anatropous ovules with linear hilum and superior exterior micropyle. The fruit is a triquetrous loculicidal capsule, the valves bearing upon the middle of their interior face a partition, on each side of which is a descendent seed. This is ' The pollen of several Vochysiacem of the series SalvatertictiB has been examined hy H. MoHL. (in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 332), and descrihed in different categories, "a flattened sphere with three angles, small papilleas on the angles [Vochysia fernigmea).—b. Spherical, tri- angular at the equator, on the angles very short folds, on these the papillae [Qualea ecalcarata).— e. Ovoid ; three folds; in water a sphere with the bands bearing papillie [Vochysia pyramidalis, Amphilcchia qtmleoides, Callisthene minor).". 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
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