. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 381. riower (f). Fig. 382. Long. sect, of flower (f). Calophyllmn* (fig. 381-384), of which a separate group has been made, is exceptional in this series by a single character; the gynse- cium is reduced to one carpel, and the ovary, consequently, has but one cell with a single anatropous, almost basilar ovule, ordinarily ascending,* and the style is terminated by a more or less oblique stigmatiferous head. The fruit is a drupe the seed of which encloses 1 Zei/l. 50.—'R.', xj. 368. 2 See vol. IT. p. 269. This genus, unkno


. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 381. riower (f). Fig. 382. Long. sect, of flower (f). Calophyllmn* (fig. 381-384), of which a separate group has been made, is exceptional in this series by a single character; the gynse- cium is reduced to one carpel, and the ovary, consequently, has but one cell with a single anatropous, almost basilar ovule, ordinarily ascending,* and the style is terminated by a more or less oblique stigmatiferous head. The fruit is a drupe the seed of which encloses 1 Zei/l. 50.—'R.', xj. 368. 2 See vol. IT. p. 269. This genus, unknown to us, had previously been referred doubtfully to the Ternstrceiniacea. 3 Bedd. M Sylv. t. 3, 93.—T. Dyer Sook. f. 11. Brit. Ind. i. 278. * L. Gen. n. 658.—J. Gm. 258; Ann. Mtis. xx. 466.—Lamk. Diet. 1. 552 ; Suppl. ii. 17 ; 111. t. 459.—GiERTN. Fruct. i. 201, t. 43, fig. Prody. i. 662.—Cameess. Mem. Mus. xvi. 427, t. 17, fig. C—SfACH, Stiit a BuffM, V. 330.— Endl. Gen. n, 5448.—Payer, Fam. Nat. 40.— B. H. Oen. 175, n. 20.—Pt. et Tei. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, XV. lil.—Calaba Plum. Gen. 39, t. 18.— Adans. J' des PI. ii. 446.—Inophyllu/m Burm. Tlies. Zeyl. 130.—Xalop/iA/llodendronYAiLii. Mem. Acad. Pay. [1722] 207.—Bahamaria Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790) 469.—Apoterium Bl. Bijdr. 218.—Zamprnphyllum Miers, Trans, linn. iSoc. xxi. 249, t. 26, fig. 13 (part). ' Owing to the slight variations presented by the point of insertion and to its anatropy more or less complete, this ovule may here and there direct its mioropyle towards the side or even towards the top of the cell; as we have seen in certain fresh flowers of the cultivated 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. Reev


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