. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 409. Flower. Fig. 410. Flower, a Fig. 411. sepal folded back. Diagram. Fig. 412. Longitudinal Fig. 413. Young section of flower. fruit. tomentose. The receptacle is adorned inwardly by a glandtdar disk rising in a projecting double ridge on the side of sepal 2, and secret- ing an abundant sweet nectar. The stamens are four, superposed to the sepals 1, 3, 4', and 5; they are unequal, the two anterior being finally the shortest, and the two posterior may be completely united below by a transverse fillet; each is formed of a free decli- nate filament
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 409. Flower. Fig. 410. Flower, a Fig. 411. sepal folded back. Diagram. Fig. 412. Longitudinal Fig. 413. Young section of flower. fruit. tomentose. The receptacle is adorned inwardly by a glandtdar disk rising in a projecting double ridge on the side of sepal 2, and secret- ing an abundant sweet nectar. The stamens are four, superposed to the sepals 1, 3, 4', and 5; they are unequal, the two anterior being finally the shortest, and the two posterior may be completely united below by a transverse fillet; each is formed of a free decli- nate filament and a bilocular introrse anther dehiscent by two lon- gitudinal clefts. The free, slightly excentric, gynseceum is formed by an ovary with four cells separated outwardly by vertical grooves. Two of them are lateral, the other two anterior and posterior. Each of them exhibits in its internal angle a placenta supporting two ver- tical series of ascendent, anatropal ovules, having the micropyle directed downwards and outwards.^ There are one or two on each series. The fruit, accompanying for a longer or shorter time the perianth and staminal filaments (fig. 413), is a papyraceous capsule, with four projecting lobes and four cells opening longitudinally and inwardly above. They generally contain an exarillate seed, having 57 ; Suppl. iii. 646.—GjEutn. Fruct. iii. 158, t. 211.—DC. Prodr. i. 708.—A. Juss. Mim. Mm. xii. 459, t. 28, fig. 48.—Lindl. Fe^-. Kingd. 479. —JImbl. Gen. n. 6043.—Payeh, Organog. 86, t. 18.—B. H. Om. 411, n. 69.—Schnizl. leonogr. t. 253 «.—Lem. at Done. Tr. Gin. 228.—i risma Pl. Trans. Ltnn. Soc. xx. 416, t. 20, fig. 15-20. ^ It is sepal 2. 2 It exists at the commencement, but may be arrested at a very early period of its evolution. ^ With double 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
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