. The natural history of plants. Botany. 158 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. â without laterally adhering to it. They have a female calyx with four divisions more or less deep, relative to -which the ovary is inferior in Maquira and superior in Perebea. The former are there- fore here the analogues of Olmedia, whilst the latter nearly corre- spond to Pseudolmedia and Antiaris. Castilloa Fig. 122. Floriferous branch (i). Now let there be, in a concave receptacle like that of the Antiaris, a female flower the ovary of which occupies the central cavity, and on the thickened margin of the re
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 158 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. â without laterally adhering to it. They have a female calyx with four divisions more or less deep, relative to -which the ovary is inferior in Maquira and superior in Perebea. The former are there- fore here the analogues of Olmedia, whilst the latter nearly corre- spond to Pseudolmedia and Antiaris. Castilloa Fig. 122. Floriferous branch (i). Now let there be, in a concave receptacle like that of the Antiaris, a female flower the ovary of which occupies the central cavity, and on the thickened margin of the receptacle let there be grouped glomerules of male flowers, inserted perigynously in relation to the gyneecium, and we shall have an inflorescence much resembling the flower of the Rose, with this difference that the stamens are replaced by male inflorescences. This happens in a small group to which the name of Brosimece been given. Take, for example Lanes- sania (fig. 123), a tree of northern Brazil. The receptacle of its. 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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