. 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. XXVIII. CYCLANTHE^. 829 or on long funieles [Cy
. 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. XXVIII. CYCLANTHE^. 829 or on long funieles [Cyclanthus). Fetjit a syncarpous "berry, of fleshy $ flowers; bark of the spadix fructiferous, bursting at the base into 8-4 irregular fleshy strips, which roll up by degrees towards the top of the spadix, and retain the berries flxed in their pulp; these soon deliquesce and leave the seeds {Garludovica palmata). Seeds numerous ; testa soft or , coriaceous, filled with raph- ides ; raphe often thickened; albumen horny. Embeto small, straight, cylindric, basilar; radicle near the hilum. GENERA. Cyclanthus. * Garludovica. \ ^ CyclantliecB, which are closely allied to Pandanece ani Freycinetiees, are â ec[ually near Ai-oidea and Palms. They are exclusively tropical Ame- rican. The fiov/ering spadices of several Cyclanthi, and especially of C. hipar- titus, cultivated by the natives of the province of Maynas, in Brazil, have a sweet scent, between that of Tanilla and cinnamon. The Indians cook them with meat as an fephrodisiac. Poeppig' has observed that these spadices are neveV attached By fructivorous animals, not even by the numerous .,of ants, usually so foi^d of .succulent fruits. " - Carludovica palmata, which grows in the damp forests of Ecua- dor, Peru, and New Grrenada, yields a,, much-valued straw,.from which are manufactured Guayaquil or , Panama hats. Weddell remarks that the young leaves are gathered in bud, while still scarcely tinged with green; the
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