. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 473. Portion of inflorescence. Fig. 472. Habit {-i^). Fig. 474. Flower. folioles, much more developed, when they exist, and regarded as two lateral petals.^ Superposed to these two folioles are two epigynous stamens with free filaments and basifixed, erect, bilocular anthers, dehiscing by two longitudinal nearly marginal clefts. In the female flowers they are more or less completely aborted. The gyngecium, which totally or partly disappears in the male flower, is composed of an inferior unilocular ovary, surmounted by two stylary branches, subulate
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 473. Portion of inflorescence. Fig. 472. Habit {-i^). Fig. 474. Flower. folioles, much more developed, when they exist, and regarded as two lateral petals.^ Superposed to these two folioles are two epigynous stamens with free filaments and basifixed, erect, bilocular anthers, dehiscing by two longitudinal nearly marginal clefts. In the female flowers they are more or less completely aborted. The gyngecium, which totally or partly disappears in the male flower, is composed of an inferior unilocular ovary, surmounted by two stylary branches, subulate and charged with stigmatic papillae. Near the top of the ovarian cell is inserted a single descending ovule,^ with the micropyle superior and lateral to the placenta. The fruit is a small drupe with soft pulp,* and the putamen, ci'ustaceous and fragile, contains one Suppl. ii. 863; III. t. 801.—Enhl. Gen. r. 1889. B. H. Gen. 676, u. 7.—H. Bn. Paya- Fam. Nap. 379 J Adansonia, xii. 38.—A. DO. Prodr. xvi. Beet. ii. 597.—Ferpemum Btirm. Prodr. M. Gap. 26.—Panke Feuill. Obs. ii. t. SO.—Misandra CoMMEBS. ex J. Gen. 405.—Bisomene Banks et Soi. (ex FoKST. Comm. Gwtt. ix. 43.—Gaudich. Freyc. Voy. Bot. 512.—Milligania Hook. f. Hook, le. t. 299.—Panfea (Ebst. PI. Nov. 6 [Nat. For. Vid. 1851). — Pseudo-Gmnera CEkst. — Ganneropais CEkst. — Misandropsia CErst. loc, cit. 1 Sometimes, however, trimerous. ^ These would be sepals if the alternate teeth proceeded only from a marginal projection the receptacle. They are sometimes cuoullate, and may also, doubtless, be three in number. (See Adanaonia, xii. 38.) 3 Anatropous or peritropous (?). * In ff. ehilenais, the fruit of which ripens pretty well in our conservatories, the exterior membrane of the drupaceous fruit is orange- coloured. 31-2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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