. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. MARANTACEAE 841 also consists of much enlarged colourless water-storing cells. The midrib divides the blade asymmetrically and, as in other Scitamineae with oblique blades, the narrower "half" is rolled round the broader in the young leaf. The flowers form a spike or panicle which is generally terminal on a leafy shoot, rarely on a scale-bearing scape or springing direct from the rhizome. The bracts are generally arranged in two rows, which by unequal growth often get pushed to one side. The flowers stand in pairs in the bract- axils
. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. MARANTACEAE 841 also consists of much enlarged colourless water-storing cells. The midrib divides the blade asymmetrically and, as in other Scitamineae with oblique blades, the narrower "half" is rolled round the broader in the young leaf. The flowers form a spike or panicle which is generally terminal on a leafy shoot, rarely on a scale-bearing scape or springing direct from the rhizome. The bracts are generally arranged in two rows, which by unequal growth often get pushed to one side. The flowers stand in pairs in the bract- axils ; there may be one pair or several, generally two to five, forming a monochasial cyme. The two flowers of a pair are complementary as regards their Fig. 160. Inflorescence terminating the leafy shoot of Galathea grandiflora. After Lindley, in Botanical Register. Single leaf above the sheath shewing pulvinus (p). A. Flower of Galathea concolor, reduced, shewing the corolla-tube exceeding the calyx, the spreading similar petal-limbs (/>), the androecium consisting of a single petaloid staminode and an inner series comprising the fertile stamen bearing the half-anther (a), a fleshy structure (a), and a hooded staminode (e); s, style, which has escaped from e. B. Androecium opened out, parts as in A. A and B after Petersen. As in the last two orders the androecium is adnate to the corolla-tube. The posterior stamen of the inner whorl bears a fertile half-anther (a), and a larger or smaller petaloid ap- pendage. Of the other members of this whorl one forms a petaloid hood (fig. 160, e, 161, L) enveloping the style, the other a tough thick structure (a in figs. 160, 161). The outer whorl is in a few cases absent (, a small section of Galathea);. 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 Re
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