. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig-. 391. Hennaphrodite flower (^). Fig. 392. Longitudinal section of flower. with four petals and a more or less excentric ovary with bi-ovulate cells. The petals are provided with a long claw lined iu the upper part by a petaloid appendage, more or less lobate and cut in fim- briate tufts (fig. 391, 392). The receptacle has the shape of a cup on whose edges the very pronounced waved disk is projected from one side, so that the stipitate gynseceum is more or less excentric. The fruit is vesiculate, almost like that of Koelreuteria, and the cells of th
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig-. 391. Hennaphrodite flower (^). Fig. 392. Longitudinal section of flower. with four petals and a more or less excentric ovary with bi-ovulate cells. The petals are provided with a long claw lined iu the upper part by a petaloid appendage, more or less lobate and cut in fim- briate tufts (fig. 391, 392). The receptacle has the shape of a cup on whose edges the very pronounced waved disk is projected from one side, so that the stipitate gynseceum is more or less excentric. The fruit is vesiculate, almost like that of Koelreuteria, and the cells of the ovary are also biovnlate. The two species of Erithrophysa known are, one from the Cape, the other from Madagascar, and they have large flowers appearing before the imparipinnate leaves. Cossignia (fig. 393-398), consisting of shrubs from Zanzibar, Madagascar, and the Mascarine islands, has nearly all the characters oi Erithrophysa;. 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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