. The natural history of plants. Botany. I Fig. 260. Flower (f). Fig. 261. Longitudinal section of flower. part. The stone, with thick stony monospermous cells, vertical or divergent, smooth outwardly, or sometimes prickly with exterior prominencies, and hollowed out above by oblique channels, is covered by a more or less abundant mesocarp. The seeds enclose, under their thin coats, a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, with thick, plano- convex cotyledons and a short superior radicle. In certain species of Spondia, as S. pleiogyna^ the number of ovary cells may amount to fifteen. In others, there are
. The natural history of plants. Botany. I Fig. 260. Flower (f). Fig. 261. Longitudinal section of flower. part. The stone, with thick stony monospermous cells, vertical or divergent, smooth outwardly, or sometimes prickly with exterior prominencies, and hollowed out above by oblique channels, is covered by a more or less abundant mesocarp. The seeds enclose, under their thin coats, a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, with thick, plano- convex cotyledons and a short superior radicle. In certain species of Spondia, as S. pleiogyna^ the number of ovary cells may amount to fifteen. In others, there are generally only two or three; this is the case in Poupartia,^ consisting of plants from eastern tropical Africa, principally insular, often considered as a distinct genus, the prefloration of whose corolla is generally much more distinctly imbricate. Ten species* of Spondias are known growing in all the tropical regions of the globe, and several are frequently cultivated in warm countries. These are trees, with alternate leaves, near together towards the summit of the branches, compound-imparipinnate, with opposite folioles. Their 1 With double coat. ShaJcua Boj. Hoi-t. Maur. 82. ^ F. MuELL. Fragm. iv. 78. * Wight et Aen. Prodr. i. 172, 173 {Cytliee- 3 CoMMERS. ex J. Qen. 372.—PoiE. Biet. v. red).—Guillem. in Ann. So. Nat. b&. 2, vii. 606.—K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. s&. 1, ii. 364.—DC. 362.—Bi. Mus. 233, t. 41 {Ema).— Prodr. ii. 75.—Endl. Gen. n. 5921.—Makch. :i1.—'S^^ Anacard. 27, 169.—Lanneoma Del. in A/nn. Sc. i. 491.—Walp. Sep. i. 566 ; v. 418 ; Ann. ii. Nat. 8&. 2, XX. 91, t. 1, fig. 2.—Walp. Pep. 287; vi. 648. v. 413 ; Ann. iii. 483.—B. H. Gen. 428. n. 42.—. 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 Ernes
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