. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fia. 50. Flower (f). Fia. 51. Longitudinal section of flower. the axiUary petal overlapped in the bud different from the rest. But the calyx consists of five equal or stibequal sepals, inserted on the rim of a pretty deep receptacle, thickened or quite valvate at the edges. The gynseceum, central or scarcely excentric,'becomes a bivalve many- seeded pod with the pericarp thickened in the intervals between the ; Three species of this genus' are known, unarmed trees from India, Madagascar, and the east coast of tropical Africa, with bipinnate l
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fia. 50. Flower (f). Fia. 51. Longitudinal section of flower. the axiUary petal overlapped in the bud different from the rest. But the calyx consists of five equal or stibequal sepals, inserted on the rim of a pretty deep receptacle, thickened or quite valvate at the edges. The gynseceum, central or scarcely excentric,'becomes a bivalve many- seeded pod with the pericarp thickened in the intervals between the ; Three species of this genus' are known, unarmed trees from India, Madagascar, and the east coast of tropical Africa, with bipinnate leaves and large flowers in terminal racemes. Colvillea^ has the general characters of habit and the racemes ' L., S'pee., 549.—•SLOAir.,S^w«., 2, t. 10, figs. 1-4.—BLAOKW.,Be?-6.,—',Arzneig., ix. t. 44.—H. B. K., Hoa. Gen. et Spec. vi. 325. 2 L., Gen., n. 515 (part.).—DC, Prodr., ii. 483 (part.).—, Gen., n. 6766 (part.).— B. H., Gen., 569, n. 317 (nee T., Inst., 619, t. 391.—ai:iiTK., Fruct., ii. 150, t. 150.—K., Mimos., t. 44). " The foot of the ovary is stumpy and obliquely inserted, and usually compressed. The style and stamens are involute in the bud. * These are supported on well-developed fu- nicles, and possess copious very hard albumen j the embryo is often yellowish green. ' DC, loc. cit., n. 3.—Hook., in Bot. Mag., t. 2884.—Oliv., Fl. Trap. Afr., ii. 265. « BOJ., in Boi. Mag., t. 3325, 3326 j in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 2, iv. 294.—Endl., Gen., n. 6767. —B. H., Gen., 569, n. 316.—Walp., Sep. v. 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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