. The natural history of plants. Botany. 270 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. as ScMnus. The membraneous calyx is valvate, and the stamens, five in number, are alternate with the contorted petals, but the insertion of these latter is quite peculiar; it is made on the columnar receptacle, not only by the base, but also G-iutaBenghaa. following a Vertical mfesial ridge which occupies the internal face to a rather large extent (fig. 306, 307). There results beneath each stamen a sort of adherent spur analogous to that of the posterior sepal of Pelargonium. The gynseceum has only one fertile cell, surmo
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 270 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. as ScMnus. The membraneous calyx is valvate, and the stamens, five in number, are alternate with the contorted petals, but the insertion of these latter is quite peculiar; it is made on the columnar receptacle, not only by the base, but also G-iutaBenghaa. following a Vertical mfesial ridge which occupies the internal face to a rather large extent (fig. 306, 307). There results beneath each stamen a sort of adherent spur analogous to that of the posterior sepal of Pelargonium. The gynseceum has only one fertile cell, surmounted by a style and containing an ovule suspended above an upright funicle. The fruit is drupaceous, monospermous. Half-a- dozen species of Gluta have been described, trees with simple leaves from tropical Asia and Madagascar. In Swintonia, a tree with simple leaves from Malacca, the recep- tacle is elevated above the calyx in a column much less raised than in Gluta, and the petals are inserted also in a small vertical expanse, Zoxostj/lis Kg. 305. i) 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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