. The natural history of plants. Botany. 2 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. as is likewise the receptacle, with hairs or prominences of variable nature.' .Within are an equal number of alternate, free, symmetrical or unsymmetrical petals, likewise contorted in prefloration.^ The stamens are interior to the petals and arranged in two verticils. Melaitoma Fig. 2. Long. sect. oftudO,). Fig. 4. Long. sect, of flower. Five of them are larger and superposed to the sepals, and five smaller alternate. Their organization is .peculiar, each being formed of a filament, at first incurved at the
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 2 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. as is likewise the receptacle, with hairs or prominences of variable nature.' .Within are an equal number of alternate, free, symmetrical or unsymmetrical petals, likewise contorted in prefloration.^ The stamens are interior to the petals and arranged in two verticils. Melaitoma Fig. 2. Long. sect. oftudO,). Fig. 4. Long. sect, of flower. Five of them are larger and superposed to the sepals, and five smaller alternate. Their organization is .peculiar, each being formed of a filament, at first incurved at the summit,^ and of an elongate, curved, undulated, introrse, bilocular anther, prolonged at the summit to a ' Some larger iihan the others form teeth or rigid hairs alternating exactly with the sepals. On the exterior surface of the receptacle there may be from simple hairs to flattened tongues, dentelato at the margin and each formed of a great numher of elongate, fibriform elements hound together at the margins. These are then in some sense prickles. 2 The torsion of the sepals and that of the petals are normally inverted. ' After anthesis the filaments are so displaced as to become all on one side of the flower, and to direct the convexity of their curvature to this same side. This is effected in the stamens inserted on the opposite side by a torsion upon itself of that portion of the filament surmount- ing the point of 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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