. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Marlberry 769 lobes hairy-fringed; corolla wheel-shaped, i cm. across, the 5, rarely 4 or 6 lobes, oblong to obovate, blunt, rcflexed, and marked by purplish lines and dots; the stamens are of the same number as the lobes of the corolla and inserted at the top of its tube; filaments very short and broad; anthers orange-colored, longer than the filaments; the ovary is globose, gradually contracted into a long, slender styl
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Marlberry 769 lobes hairy-fringed; corolla wheel-shaped, i cm. across, the 5, rarely 4 or 6 lobes, oblong to obovate, blunt, rcflexed, and marked by purplish lines and dots; the stamens are of the same number as the lobes of the corolla and inserted at the top of its tube; filaments very short and broad; anthers orange-colored, longer than the filaments; the ovary is globose, gradually contracted into a long, slender style, capped with a simple, disk-like stigma. The fruit, ripening in spring, is a de- pressed globose, dryish berry 7 to 9 mm. in diameter, subtended by the persistent calyx and tipped by the base of the style, becoming black and shining when fully. Fig. 701. — Marlberry. ripe; seed solitary, depressed, somewhat kidney-shaped, 3 mm. long, punctate and reddish brown. The wood is hard, very dense, brown, marked by darker bands; its specific gravity is about The genus comprises about 200 species, mostly tropical shrubs and trees, of both hemispheres. Some of them are said to produce edible fniits, but otherwise they are of no economic importance. The name was used by the natives of* Guiana for, the type species, Icacorea guianensis 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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