. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. Nepenthes. Seed, entire aud cut vertically (mag
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. Nepenthes. Seed, entire aud cut vertically (mag.). Nepenth£S. Seed. Commencement of Nepenthes. Leaf with a "winged petiole, and terminating in an operculate pitcher. Nepenthes. Seed. Seed. Nepenthes. Germination completed. Flowers dioecious. Peeiakth single. Stamens united above into an antheri- ferous column. Ovaet several-celled, many-ovuled. Capsule with loculicidal semi- septiferous valves. Seeds scoMform, many^seriate on the 2 faces of the septa; albumen' fleshy. Embeto straight, axile.—Leaves terminated hy an operculate pitcher. Suffiruteseent plants with prostrate or sarmentose stem; wood without concen- tric zones, but with numerous bundles of tracheae dispersed across the pith and liber, and surrounding the woody axis. Leaves alternate; petiole winged at the base, the midrib prolonged at the top and curved or spirally twisted, and terminating in a second foliaceous expansion, which is hollowed like an urn (the pitcher), to the opening of which is fitted a sort of lid attached as by a hinge, and capable of being lowered or raised, so that the pitcher is sometimes closed, sometimes open; it is often found to contain a watery liquid before the raising of the lid. Elowbes dioecious, numerous, in a raceme or sub-terminal panicle, which becomes lateral by. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appea
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