. The natural history of plants. Botany. Zinncea {Abelia) uniflora. to the section bf the genus presenting these peculiarities; it comprises climbing shrubs -with opposite, often connate leaves. In another section of the genus to which the name Xylosteon (fig. 377-379) has been given, the stems are sometimes climbing, sometimes erect; the leaves are not connate, and the flowers, grouped in pairs, have their ovaries free (fig. 378) or united to a variable extent (or even entirely) in one receptacular pouch (fig. 377, 879). The same is the case with the fruit which is not crowned with the calyx
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Zinncea {Abelia) uniflora. to the section bf the genus presenting these peculiarities; it comprises climbing shrubs -with opposite, often connate leaves. In another section of the genus to which the name Xylosteon (fig. 377-379) has been given, the stems are sometimes climbing, sometimes erect; the leaves are not connate, and the flowers, grouped in pairs, have their ovaries free (fig. 378) or united to a variable extent (or even entirely) in one receptacular pouch (fig. 377, 879). The same is the case with the fruit which is not crowned with the calyx and in which the two or three pluriovulate cells remain distinct. Triosteum, Asiatic and American perennial herbs, has nearly the irregular flowers of the Honeysuckles, with an ovary of 2-5 cells; but in each of these there is only one descending ovule with dorsal raphe and micropyle directed inwards and upwards. The leaves are opposite, and in their axils are the flowers, which are solitary or in contracted cymes. The name Linncea bo- realis'{ 380) has been given to a very low creeping woody plant of the northern regions of Europe, Asia and Ame- rica, the flower of which is nearly that of Lonicera, with a corolla of five imbricate lobes, regular or somewhat irregular, and four stamens, but the three-celled ovary resembles that of 8ym,- phoricarpos in that the cells do not all contain the same number of ovules: two are pluri- ovulate, and in the third is a single descending ovule with dorsal raphe. The fruit, indehiscent, coriaceous, trilocular, contains only a single seed. In Abelia (fig. 381), with us only a section of the. 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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