. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fia. 121. Hermaphrodite flower (4). Fia. 122. Longitudinal section of hermaphrodite flower. anatropous ovules, with their micropyles upwards and outwards.' The fruit is a sort of elongated pod, straight or bowed, compressed, with thickened sutures. The walls are drupaceous and indehiscent; the thin smooth epicarp covers a coriaceous mesocarp, more or less gorged with a sweet pulp ; and the thin dry parchment-like endocarp projects to form oblique or transverse false dissepiments between the seeds. These are unequally obovate and compressed, attached by
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fia. 121. Hermaphrodite flower (4). Fia. 122. Longitudinal section of hermaphrodite flower. anatropous ovules, with their micropyles upwards and outwards.' The fruit is a sort of elongated pod, straight or bowed, compressed, with thickened sutures. The walls are drupaceous and indehiscent; the thin smooth epicarp covers a coriaceous mesocarp, more or less gorged with a sweet pulp ; and the thin dry parchment-like endocarp projects to form oblique or transverse false dissepiments between the seeds. These are unequally obovate and compressed, attached by long funicles ;^ within the thick seed-coats is an abundant horny albumen, in the centre of which is a greenish embryo with flattened cotyledons and a straight exserted radicle.^ C. Siliqutf is the only known species of the genus; it is a tree from the Mediterranean, whose persistent paripinnate leaves have few coriaceous leaflets and ' This anther, like that of the large anterior stamen of Moldenhamera (fig. Ill), is in form exceptional among Cassieee, hut this character of itself can have no great value. " Thny have two coats, and the rim of the exostome is slightly thickened, like the circum- ference of the hilura, which at a certain age forms a well-marked collar around the funide. 3 The funicle is dilated a little before joining the hilum. * The cotyledons are more or less unsymme- trical and auriculate at the base. The radicle is often dilated towards the apex. ' L., Spec, 1513.—DUHAM., Arir., ii. t. 70. —Cay., Icon., t. 113.—Biackw., Serb., t. 209. —Fasako, in Act. Neapol. (1181), 248, t. 18, fig. 2.—NeeS, Plant. Off., iv. t. 19.—Keronia Theophb.— Keration Diosc.—Siliqua Maith. —Mens Mgyptia Theoph. (ex Abaks.).. 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 Ern
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