. The natural history of plants. Botany. BIPSACACEJS. 525 close to the summit of the ovarian cell, and the micropyle is directed upwards and inwards. The slender style which surmounts the ovary traverses the tube formed by the anthers and rises considerably above them; its stigmatiferous extremity is undivided and not enlarged. The fruit is an achene the pericarp of which bears as many vertical Calyeera Fig, 431. Long. sect, of inflorescence (f). angles or short and obtuse wings as there are sepals, and is continuous with the latter which are persistent but not accrescent. The se
. The natural history of plants. Botany. BIPSACACEJS. 525 close to the summit of the ovarian cell, and the micropyle is directed upwards and inwards. The slender style which surmounts the ovary traverses the tube formed by the anthers and rises considerably above them; its stigmatiferous extremity is undivided and not enlarged. The fruit is an achene the pericarp of which bears as many vertical Calyeera Fig, 431. Long. sect, of inflorescence (f). angles or short and obtuse wings as there are sepals, and is continuous with the latter which are persistent but not accrescent. The seed encloses under its coats a fleshy albumen surrounding a rather long axUe embryo, the cotyledons .of which are tolerably thick and the radicle, a little longer, is turned upwards. Boopis comprises glabrous annual or perennial herbs which, about ten in number,' inhabit the temperate and especially the Andean regions of South America. The leaves are alternate, without stipules; the lower ordinarily rosetted, entire, dentate or pinnatifid, sometimes slightly fleshy. The stem is prolonged upwards and most frequently bears only smaller leaves or bracts; it may even be quite destitute. The flowers ^ are described as in capitules, but they really form contracted cymes, that is glomerules,* each occupying the axil of one of the bracts borne by the receptacle. The latter is convex, nearly hemispherical or more ' ' P(EPP. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i.*21, t. 33. .—Remy, C. Gay FL Ghil. iii. 247 {Gamocarpha) 248.—A. Gbay, Pre. Amcr. Acid. v. 321.— Phil. Linnma, xxviii. 706. — Wedd. Chlor. Jndin. ii. 7, t. 44.—WALr. Ann. i. 988; v. 142 (Acarpha), - Small, white (or blue T). 3 Often 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 illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. Lon
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