. The natural history of plants. Botany. 494 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. are thick and hard; they enclose a deeply ruminated albumen (fig. 306), containing the embryo in a little cavity near the micro- pyle. The radicle is inferior, short and conical; the cotyledons are diverging and undulate. M. fragram is a tree from the Moluccas, with all its parts aromatic. The leaves are alternate simple entire petiolate exstipulate. Its flowers are in false racemes,' few-flowered, axillary or supra-axillary and pedunculate. Each pedicel has a caducous bract at its base, and bears at a variable height, usu
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 494 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. are thick and hard; they enclose a deeply ruminated albumen (fig. 306), containing the embryo in a little cavity near the micro- pyle. The radicle is inferior, short and conical; the cotyledons are diverging and undulate. M. fragram is a tree from the Moluccas, with all its parts aromatic. The leaves are alternate simple entire petiolate exstipulate. Its flowers are in false racemes,' few-flowered, axillary or supra-axillary and pedunculate. Each pedicel has a caducous bract at its base, and bears at a variable height, usually close under the flower, another caducous bract alternating with the two anterior perianth-leaves. Myristioa Fia. 305. 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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