. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. CLXIV. GESNEBACEiE. 697 opposite, placed right
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. CLXIV. GESNEBACEiE. 697 opposite, placed right and left of the floral axis; style filiform, simple; stigma capi- tate, concave or 2-lobed; ovules numerous, sessile or funicled, anatropous. FauiT either fleshy with pulpy placentas, or capsular ovoid or subglobose, or siliquiform with 2 straight or twisted semi-placentiferous valves. Seeds minute, oblong; testa loose or cellular. Embeto straight, exalbuminous, or in the axis of a fleshy albumen; radicle next the hilum. Teibb I. OESNEBEM Seeds albuminous. Ovary semi-inferior or inferior. Fruit capsular. Rytidophyllum. Mitraria. PRINCIPAL GENERA. Conradia. * Gesuera. Gloxinia. * Achimenes. ' Ligeria. * Mandirola. * Tidsea. * Peutaraphia. Tbibe II. BmLEBIEJE. Seeds albuminous. Eruit a berry or capsule. Ovary free. PRINCIPAL GENERA. Besleria. * Alloplectus. Hjpocyrta. Episcia. ^ Columnea. Mitraria. Nematanthus. Tapeinotes. Teibe III. CYBTANDBU^. Seeds exalbuminous. Fruit a contorted capsule or berry. * .^schynanthus. Streptocarpus, PRINCIPAL GENERA. [§ 1. Fruit capsular.^ Lysionotua. Didymocarpus. Boea. Ramondia.' • Chirita. Kluria. Cyrtandra. [§ 2. Fruit Jkshj.] Ehyncliotechum. Fieldia. GesneracecB are allied to Suhiacem, Gentianeee, Sesamete, Orohcmehea (see these families). They approach Bignoniacem in the generally opposite leaves, the imbricate sestivation (and Besleriece in the hypogynous corolla), the disk girding the base or middle of the ovary, and the anatropous ovu
Size: 2199px × 1136px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectbotany, bookyear1873
