. The natural history of plants. Botany. 72 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. superposed to the sepals, five to the petals. The latter are the smaller, and form a whorl internal to the former. Each stamen is formed of a declinate filament, villous or glandular at the base, and CtBsalpinla Pi&. 45. Habit (i). an introrse two-celled anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.' The gynseceum, composed of a single carpellary leaf superposed to the anterior sepal, consists of a sessile ovary tapering at the tip into a style, whose stigmatiferous apex forms a funnel, with a large gaping mouth
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 72 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. superposed to the sepals, five to the petals. The latter are the smaller, and form a whorl internal to the former. Each stamen is formed of a declinate filament, villous or glandular at the base, and CtBsalpinla Pi&. 45. Habit (i). an introrse two-celled anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.' The gynseceum, composed of a single carpellary leaf superposed to the anterior sepal, consists of a sessile ovary tapering at the tip into a style, whose stigmatiferous apex forms a funnel, with a large gaping mouth of variable size and a more or less thickened reflexed rim. On the side next the posterior petal the ovary contains a parietal placenta bearing several descending anatropous ovules' in two vertical rows ; the micropyles look upwards and outwards—that is, to the anterior ' Tlie pullen is spherical in C. pulcherrima (formerly referred to the genus Foincicma), witii a punctate outer coat, and three flat strongly punctate bands meeting at the poles (H. MoHL, Ann. So. Nat, s&. 2, iii. 342). * They have two coats in the species we have under cultivation, and 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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