. The natural history of plants. Botany. 128 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. at the base. Fragariopsis^ consisting of climbing shrubs from Brazil, owes its name to its androeeum, formed of a very variable number of antbers, applied upon the conical surface of a glandular receptacle. The quadrilocular ovary is also surmounted by a wide obpyramidal style bearing above four small stigmatiferous lips. All these genera recall the organisation of Plukenetia., which has also a large style, of variable form, almost spherical or obpyramidal, with stigmatiferous lips more or less prominent, a fruit with thre
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 128 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. at the base. Fragariopsis^ consisting of climbing shrubs from Brazil, owes its name to its androeeum, formed of a very variable number of antbers, applied upon the conical surface of a glandular receptacle. The quadrilocular ovary is also surmounted by a wide obpyramidal style bearing above four small stigmatiferous lips. All these genera recall the organisation of Plukenetia., which has also a large style, of variable form, almost spherical or obpyramidal, with stigmatiferous lips more or less prominent, a fruit with three or four shells, more or less projecting or horned, and anthers indefinite in number, four- lobed, extrorse, inserted on a conical or hemispherical receptacle. This genus is found in America, Africa, and tropical Oceania. Dalechampia (fig. 190-195), of which a special tribe has been made, should, it appears to us, only form a sub-series near the pre- ceding genera. It has a great analogy with Plulcenetia, the style DalecJiampm {Gremopliyllum) 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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