. The natural history of plants. Botany. ULMAOE^. 161 (fig. 124-126). There are Figs in all parts of the world, but especially in the tropical regions. Sparattosyce, trees of New Caledonia, derive their name from their common floral receptacle being finally divided and open, which is not the case in the Figs; and from their female flowers, situated upon separate inflorescences, having a style emerging from the apical opening of the receptacle, that of the Figs remaining enclosed. In the SoroceecB, the flowers are in clusters or catkins composed of icymes or glomerules (as in the inflorescence
. The natural history of plants. Botany. ULMAOE^. 161 (fig. 124-126). There are Figs in all parts of the world, but especially in the tropical regions. Sparattosyce, trees of New Caledonia, derive their name from their common floral receptacle being finally divided and open, which is not the case in the Figs; and from their female flowers, situated upon separate inflorescences, having a style emerging from the apical opening of the receptacle, that of the Figs remaining enclosed. In the SoroceecB, the flowers are in clusters or catkins composed of icymes or glomerules (as in the inflorescence of most Morece). The Sorocece proper, shrubs of South America, have pedicellate flowers of both sexes. In Pseudosorocea, plants of the same regions, they are sessile and disposed along the two margins of an elongate and flattened axis, resembling a spike, but which, like that of many Morece, has one or two faces without flowers and often reduced, at adult age, to simple longitudinal ridges. Finally, in Sahagunia^ likewise American, and one species inhabit-, ing MexicOi uot only does the male catkin present this peculiarity, but the male flowers, instead of being, as in the preceding genera, furnished with sepals and an equal number of superposed stamens, are represented only by bare stamens, disposed in great number and without apparent order on the common re- ceptacle and intermixed with a variable number of bracts. In one and the same genus, Pseudolmedia, according to the species, we have seen the ovule inserted more or less high on the wall of the ovarian cell, and also by an umbilicum more or less elongate; so that this ovule was in one case descending, and in another attached laterally to the ovary. It is this last arrangement which is presented in Pourouma \^g. 127), trees of tropical America, which, by this character, serve as intermediaries between the genera which precede and those which follow, and of which the group Comcephalm has been formed. Pmrowim has a free ovar
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