. The natural history of plants. Botany. u NATURAL HI8T0BY OF PLANTS. or cyliudrical spikes. But the pod is linear, compressed, and flat- tened, straight or slightly curved, with a thin submembranous pericarp, whose two valves, continuous or dividing off into transverse joints, separate at maturity from the entire persistent border of the fruit. Acacia Fig. 33. Leaf-bearing branch. Some half score species of this genus are known,' unarmed shrubs from equinoctial America and the Antilles.^ Fithecolobium^ too has hermaphrodite or polygamous flowers^ in spikes or capitula, and bip
. The natural history of plants. Botany. u NATURAL HI8T0BY OF PLANTS. or cyliudrical spikes. But the pod is linear, compressed, and flat- tened, straight or slightly curved, with a thin submembranous pericarp, whose two valves, continuous or dividing off into transverse joints, separate at maturity from the entire persistent border of the fruit. Acacia Fig. 33. Leaf-bearing branch. Some half score species of this genus are known,' unarmed shrubs from equinoctial America and the Antilles.^ Fithecolobium^ too has hermaphrodite or polygamous flowers^ in spikes or capitula, and bipinnate leaves, as in Lysiloma and Colli- andra. But the fruit is flat or compressed, falciform circinate or more or less distorted, rarely almost straight, coriaceous or nearly fleshy, indehiscent or more frequently two-valved, or dehiscing along the 1 , Mimos., t. 24.—Behth., Sulph., v. t. 31.—Geisbb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 223.—Waip., Sep., V. 594; Aim., iv. 635. 2 In its flowers this genus does not differ from the monadelphous Acacias; but the structure and dehiscence of its fruit suffice to distinguish it from them. 3 Mabt., Herb. Flor. Bras., 114; Cat, Sort. Monac., 188.—Endi., Gen., n. 6837 c.—B. H., Gen., 597, n. 395.—Cathormion Hassk., Betzia, i. 231. * The stamens united with the corolla below contain in their anthers a pollen, in masses analogous to that of Inga (see above, p. 42, note 11).. 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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