. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fia. 22. Branch. Fia. 23. Diagram. posterior. The corolla is much longer and tubular, with four valvate leaves, alternating with the calyx-lobes and united by their edges for a variable distance. The stamens are alternipetalous, inserted below the foot of the ovary, with free filaments doubled up in the bud, but much exserted in anthesis and bearing introrse two-celled anthers," dehiscing longitudinally. The stipitate one-celled ovary, ending in a long style undilated at its stigmatiferous apex, contains four ovules inserted in pairs on a posterior
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fia. 22. Branch. Fia. 23. Diagram. posterior. The corolla is much longer and tubular, with four valvate leaves, alternating with the calyx-lobes and united by their edges for a variable distance. The stamens are alternipetalous, inserted below the foot of the ovary, with free filaments doubled up in the bud, but much exserted in anthesis and bearing introrse two-celled anthers," dehiscing longitudinally. The stipitate one-celled ovary, ending in a long style undilated at its stigmatiferous apex, contains four ovules inserted in pairs on a posterior oppositipetalous parietal placenta (fig. 25). These ovules are anatropous and descending, with the micropyle upwards and outwards. The fruit is a pod, whose pericarp is edged by a continuous string covered with soft prickles. From the whole length of this the two glabrous valves separate at maturity, dividing into as many joints as there are seeds. These contain a fleshy embryo surrounded by pretty copious albumen. All the Ifimosas which approach this species and possess isoste- monous flowers belong to the section of the genus named. Ikmimosa.^ I L., Spec, 1501.—H. B. K., op. cit., vi. 252.—DC, Prodr., ii. 426, u. 12. " The cells are nearly lateral, and as it were suspended on top of the filament. The poUen is in numerous grains as in Adencmihera. ^ DC, Mem. Legwm., 12; Prodr., sect. 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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