. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Link Handb. 1. 667.—Styracaceae, A. DC. Prodr. 8. 244. (1844). Diagnosis.—Rhamnal Exogens, with monopetalous floivers, epipetalous stamem, a part atleast of the ovules suspended, a long radicle, and leafy cotyledons. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, without stipules, usually toothed. Flowersaxillary, either sohtary or clustered, with scale-hke bracts. The hairs often Fig. CCCCII. Calyx inferior (or superior), with 5 (or 4) imbri-cated divisions, persistent. Corolla
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Link Handb. 1. 667.—Styracaceae, A. DC. Prodr. 8. 244. (1844). Diagnosis.—Rhamnal Exogens, with monopetalous floivers, epipetalous stamem, a part atleast of the ovules suspended, a long radicle, and leafy cotyledons. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, without stipules, usually toothed. Flowersaxillary, either sohtary or clustered, with scale-hke bracts. The hairs often Fig. CCCCII. Calyx inferior (or superior), with 5 (or 4) imbri-cated divisions, persistent. Corolla monopetalous,the number of its divisions frequently different from that of the calyx ; with imbricated sestiva- ^ig. CCCCIII. tion. Stames definite or indefinite, aiistng from the tube of the corolla, of unequal length, cohering in various ways, but generally in aslight degree only ; anthers innate, 2-celled, bm-sting inwardly. Pollen broadly elhptical,smooth. Ovary superior, or adhering to the calyx, with from 2 to 5 cells, which areopposite the lobes of the calyx when they are of the same number, the partitions some-times scarcely adhering in the centre. Ovules anatropal, 2 or 00 in each cell, all pen-dulous or the upper ascending, the lower pendulous ; style simple ; stigma somewhatcapitate. Fniit drupaceous, smTnounted by or inclosed in the calyx, generally with allthe cells abortive except one. Seeds ascending or suspended, 5- 1, with the slenderembryo lying in the midst of the alb
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