. The natural history of plants. Botany. BUBIACE^. 351 Sarcocephalus is exceptional in this group in the relation of its flowers to the globular or ovoid axis of the inflorescence. ' In fact the ovaries, like those of Morinda and several other genera, are OuroupaHa Pig. 354. Seed (?). Fig. 352. Long. sect, of base of flower. Fig. 350. Flower (f). Fig. 351. Stamen. Fi^. 353. De- hiscing fruit (f). inserted in the cavities of the common axis of the inflorescence to which they are adnate, and the compound fruit which results represents this entire inflorescence become fleshy. The 5-6-mer
. The natural history of plants. Botany. BUBIACE^. 351 Sarcocephalus is exceptional in this group in the relation of its flowers to the globular or ovoid axis of the inflorescence. ' In fact the ovaries, like those of Morinda and several other genera, are OuroupaHa Pig. 354. Seed (?). Fig. 352. Long. sect, of base of flower. Fig. 350. Flower (f). Fig. 351. Stamen. Fi^. 353. De- hiscing fruit (f). inserted in the cavities of the common axis of the inflorescence to which they are adnate, and the compound fruit which results represents this entire inflorescence become fleshy. The 5-6-merous flowers, moreover, have an imbricate corolla and a bilocular ovary, with ovules variable in number, even solitary, on a suspended placenta. The two cells may be divided by a false partition into incomplete cellules, as in AnthocepJialus, They are trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, of tropical Asia and Africa. The leaves are coriaceous and persistent sepals. The ovary pressed oviiles. It is a tomentoso shruh, with has two cells each containing a peltate placenta terminal inflorescences, hearing only two oppo- hearing a small numher of orbicular and com- site cordate leaves at the end of each 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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