. The natural history of plants. Botany. Laelmasa rosea. Fig. 74. noriferous branch. Fig. 76. Long. sect, of flower (4). above the ovary. The latter is generally surrounded at the base by a hypogynous disk of very variable dimensions. Gnidia has alter- nate or opposite leaves and flowers generally collected in terminal capitules surrounded by an involucre of imbricated floral leaves; more rarely they are axillary, solitary or grouped in spikes. They inhabit India, Madagascar and especially tropical eastern and southern Africa. Lachncea (fig. 74-77), all natives of southern Africa, has always t
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Laelmasa rosea. Fig. 74. noriferous branch. Fig. 76. Long. sect, of flower (4). above the ovary. The latter is generally surrounded at the base by a hypogynous disk of very variable dimensions. Gnidia has alter- nate or opposite leaves and flowers generally collected in terminal capitules surrounded by an involucre of imbricated floral leaves; more rarely they are axillary, solitary or grouped in spikes. They inhabit India, Madagascar and especially tropical eastern and southern Africa. Lachncea (fig. 74-77), all natives of southern Africa, has always tetramerous flowers and eight stamens, four of which may be sterile; but, what is remarkable, these flowers are sometimes regular and sometimes irregular, with such transitions between the one form and the other, that it is quite impossible to divide the genus. The gynsscmm is destitute of hypogynous scales, and those. Fig. 76. Flower (f). 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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