. The natural history of plants. Botany. 0ELA8TBA0EM. 15 Their flowers^ are united in axillary, simple, or more or less ramified, and sometimes umbelliform cymes, with pedicels accom- panied by two lateral bracteoles. More than fifty species^ are known; they have sometimes two or even four or five stamens, two or three of which are sterile and antherless. The Salacece (fig. 26, 27), plants from the same tropical regions as the HippocratecB, often have the same habit and foliage; and their flowers present the same organisation. But their fruit, one or many- seeded, is destitute of wings, globul
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 0ELA8TBA0EM. 15 Their flowers^ are united in axillary, simple, or more or less ramified, and sometimes umbelliform cymes, with pedicels accom- panied by two lateral bracteoles. More than fifty species^ are known; they have sometimes two or even four or five stamens, two or three of which are sterile and antherless. The Salacece (fig. 26, 27), plants from the same tropical regions as the HippocratecB, often have the same habit and foliage; and their flowers present the same organisation. But their fruit, one or many- seeded, is destitute of wings, globular, or pear-shaped, often coriaceous or ligneous on the surface, pulpy within, with one or several seeds, ordinarily ascending, nude, or partially enveloped in an aril springing Salaoia vir% Fig. 26. Ploriferous branch. from the umbilicum, and containing an embryo similar to that of the HippocratevB, or thinner, with cotyledons nearly foliaceous, and, in this case, surrounded by a fleshy albumen of very variable thickness. The plants of this series are therefore very analogous in organisation to those of the Euonymus Series. So far they are scarcely distinct except in the fertile stamens being fewer in number than the petals. ' White, yellow, or greenish. » R. et Pat. Fl. Per. t. 47.—Eoxe. PI. Con- mmd. t. 130, 205.—Ettog. Guian. t. 8, 9.— Bijdr. 218.—A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 102.— WiOHT and Ass. Prodr. 103.—Wibht, 111. t. 46, 47; Icon. t. 380, ^ Guillbm et Pere. Fl. Seneff. Tent. i. Ill, t. 25, 26.—Oirv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 366.—Tul. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, viii. 91.—Griseb. Fl. Brit. 148.— Walp. Rep. i. 400; ii. 812; v. 146; Ann. ii. 193: vii. 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
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