. The natural history of plants. Botany. 370 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. in a sort of spoon-shaped bowl on which is inserte'd one of the pieces of the calyx, the smallest of all,^ whilst the four other sepals, ante- terior and lateral, are more developed. All are quincuncially im- bricate in the bud. With .them alternate four or five petals (the anterior may be wanting,^) like narrow fleshy tongues, more or less Melianthus Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illust

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. The natural history of plants. Botany. 370 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. in a sort of spoon-shaped bowl on which is inserte'd one of the pieces of the calyx, the smallest of all,^ whilst the four other sepals, ante- terior and lateral, are more developed. All are quincuncially im- bricate in the bud. With .them alternate four or five petals (the anterior may be wanting,^) like narrow fleshy tongues, more or less Melianthus 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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