. The natural history of plants. Botany. LAUBACEM. 435 dioecious or polygamous. The fruit is a berry, resting on tKe more or less decided concavity of a cupuliform receptacle with truncate edges, which never envelopes it to more than a third of its height (fig. 250). The seed is fleshy, and its embryo is exalbuminous. Ocotea belongs to the tropical and subtropical regions of America, excepting some species from Africa and the Canary Islands. Their leaves are opposite, usually thick, coriaceous, and penniveined. The flowers are small and numerous, collected into ramified racemes of cymes in the
. The natural history of plants. Botany. LAUBACEM. 435 dioecious or polygamous. The fruit is a berry, resting on tKe more or less decided concavity of a cupuliform receptacle with truncate edges, which never envelopes it to more than a third of its height (fig. 250). The seed is fleshy, and its embryo is exalbuminous. Ocotea belongs to the tropical and subtropical regions of America, excepting some species from Africa and the Canary Islands. Their leaves are opposite, usually thick, coriaceous, and penniveined. The flowers are small and numerous, collected into ramified racemes of cymes in the axils of the leaves or at the ends of the branches. About a hundred and fifty species of this genus' are known. Nectandra leucantha, NectanAra Fuchwry 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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