. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 218. Male flower {\).. Fig. 219. Long. sect, of female flower (?). an inferior ovary, but with no trace of calyx (fig. 219). The stamens, â which alternate with the petals and are the same in number, have generally a distinct filament and anther; but the latter is sterile. The fruit is a drupe with a variable number of mo- nospermous putamens, succeeding an ovary sur- mounted by as many recurved stamens as there are cells; the latter con- tain each a descending ovule, with micropyle superior and exterior and funicle slightly thickened above the mic
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 218. Male flower {\).. Fig. 219. Long. sect, of female flower (?). an inferior ovary, but with no trace of calyx (fig. 219). The stamens, â which alternate with the petals and are the same in number, have generally a distinct filament and anther; but the latter is sterile. The fruit is a drupe with a variable number of mo- nospermous putamens, succeeding an ovary sur- mounted by as many recurved stamens as there are cells; the latter con- tain each a descending ovule, with micropyle superior and exterior and funicle slightly thickened above the micropyle, as in many Araliece. They are glabrous trees of Oceania, especially abundant in New Cale- donia, with large simple penninerved leaves, and inflorescences in often very ramified clusters, composed of small capitules frequently with tolerably well-developed membranous bracts. Arthrophyllwn (fig. 220) comprises plants of Malaya and the Indian archipelago, the principal charac- ter of which is a unilocular and uniovulate ovary like that of Ereviopanax; but the albumen is deeply ruminate. The flowers are pentamerous and have a short style with terminal stigma. The fruit is regu- larly ovoid or spherical. The leaves are generally alternate, pinnate or bipinnate, and the flowers are united in simple or compound umbels often surrounded by one or more simple leaves. The pedicels are sometimes constricted and more or less distinctly articulate under the flower. Mastixia, generally referred to other families than Arthrophyllwn, is either con- generic, or so analogous that, in our opinion, it must be placed very near. The habit, however, diff'ers considerably: it has simple entire leaves, turning black by desiccation, opposite or alternate, and flowers in ^rthrophyllmn 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 t
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