. The natural history of plants. Botany. Bertphnia {Triolena) scorpioides. Fig. 15. Fruit. • Fig. 14. Long. sect, of flower. the style thickened at the base ; Diolena, in which this appendage is triple, the middle prominence being but little developed, and Triolena (fig. 16), in which this middle prominence is nearly (but not con- stantly) as pronounced as the two others. All these plants are herbaceous perennials, natives of tropical America. Gravesia is Bertolonia with a five- instead of a three-celled ovary. The stamens, equal or slightly unequal, are generally furnished with an anterior or
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Bertphnia {Triolena) scorpioides. Fig. 15. Fruit. • Fig. 14. Long. sect, of flower. the style thickened at the base ; Diolena, in which this appendage is triple, the middle prominence being but little developed, and Triolena (fig. 16), in which this middle prominence is nearly (but not con- stantly) as pronounced as the two others. All these plants are herbaceous perennials, natives of tropical America. Gravesia is Bertolonia with a five- instead of a three-celled ovary. The stamens, equal or slightly unequal, are generally furnished with an anterior or posterior appendage. The flowers are in scorpioid cymes. They are herbaceous or frutescent plants of Mada- gascar and of tropical western Africa. In Sonerila (fig. 17, 18), natives of tropical Asia, the flowers are-trimerous, with one or two verticils of three stamens and an ovary with three alternipetalous cells. They are grouped in scorpioid cymes. The same is the case in Sarcopyramis, an Indian herb, whose flower is tetramerous, with a large cuplike receptacle ; but the terminal cymes are short, capituliform, and surrounded by bracts forming an involucre. The. 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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