. The natural history of plants. Botany. BUBIACE^. 355 Symphoriearpoa vulgaris. concave gourdlike receptacle, surmounted by a narrow neck. The ovary is lodged in the cavity and the perianth is inserted on the margin of the orifice. The latter consists of a calyx with five unequal divisions, free or nearly so; the two anterior usually much larger than the others; ^nd a regular funnel-shaped corolla, the tube of which is enlarged at the base to a sort of small pouch in which are lodged five glands attached to the walls alternately with the sepals. The limb is divided into five lobes, equal or ne
. The natural history of plants. Botany. BUBIACE^. 355 Symphoriearpoa vulgaris. concave gourdlike receptacle, surmounted by a narrow neck. The ovary is lodged in the cavity and the perianth is inserted on the margin of the orifice. The latter consists of a calyx with five unequal divisions, free or nearly so; the two anterior usually much larger than the others; ^nd a regular funnel-shaped corolla, the tube of which is enlarged at the base to a sort of small pouch in which are lodged five glands attached to the walls alternately with the sepals. The limb is divided into five lobes, equal or nearly so, quincuncially imbricate in the bud,' The stamens are five in number, in- serted in the neck of the corolla, with nearly equal filaments and bilocular introrse anthers dehiscing by two longi- tudinal clefts. The inferior ovary is surmounted by a style the exserted summit of which is dilated to a depressed stigmatiferous head. In each of the oppositipetalous ovarian cells is an axile placenta with ovules in two vertical series, obliquely descending, anatropous and with their raphes turned towards those of the next series,^ The fruit is a berry, surmounted by the persistent calyx, with five polyspermous cells, the seeds of which contain a fleshy albumen and a small almost cylindrical embryo, Leycesteria is a shrub of the temperate regions of India, divided from the base into weak branches, hollow except at the nodes. There are inserted opposite (or rarely ternate) leaves, with petioles connate at the base, entire or dentate, often lobed on young plants. The inflorescences ^ are terminal, consisting of spikes of small biparous opposite cymes with large bracts more or less connate, the lateral wide and foliaceous, Pentapyxis, Himalayan shrubs, differs little from Leycesteria: having pentamerous flowers, a deeply divided calyx, a funnel-shaped campanulate corolla, imbricate or contorted, and an ovary with five multiovulate cells, which becomes a polyspermous berry. But the.
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