. The natural history of plants. Botany. 296 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. consists of shrubby or subshrubby plants with opposite leaves and flowers united in compound terminal, not unfrequently corymbiform, cymes. Jackia, a large tree of Malaya and the Indian Archipelago, has the flowers of Garphalea, with a slender and biovulate placenta in each cell, and an irregular, finally coriaceous and finely reticulate-veined accrescent calyx. These flowers are numerous, in large uniparous compound cymes, with foliaceous bracts analogous to the calycinal lobes. Phyllomelia coronata (fig. 281), a Cuban sh
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 296 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. consists of shrubby or subshrubby plants with opposite leaves and flowers united in compound terminal, not unfrequently corymbiform, cymes. Jackia, a large tree of Malaya and the Indian Archipelago, has the flowers of Garphalea, with a slender and biovulate placenta in each cell, and an irregular, finally coriaceous and finely reticulate-veined accrescent calyx. These flowers are numerous, in large uniparous compound cymes, with foliaceous bracts analogous to the calycinal lobes. Phyllomelia coronata (fig. 281), a Cuban shrub, also has the accrescent calyx of the preceding genera, membranous and regular. Phyllomelia Fig. 281. Long. sect, of flower (f). In each of its two ovarian cells is an erect placenta of JacUa and Garphalea, but with a single ovule in each instead of two or three. What chiefly renders this genus abnormal in the series is, that the lobes of the corolla, when the flower, as is often the case, is hexamerous, are arranged in two verticils: three exterior and three mterior alternate. In the pentamerous flowers, there are two exterior lobes. RetiniphyUum, the place of which is most doubtful, forms here also an abnormal subseries and has nothing in common with most of the preceding genera, except that there are in each cell two collateral ascending ovules with micropyle inferior and. exterior. They are curved, amphitropous and borne on an ascending funicle. The ovary. 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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