. The natural history of plants. Botany. 50 NATVRAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. alternate and five superposed, all united among themselves below in a tube from â wbicli tbey separate,^ eacb supporting a bilocular introrse versatile antber debiscing by two longitudinal clefts.^ The gynseceum is free, formed of an ovary generally tbree celled, tbe two posterior cells being surmounted by a style divided more or less bigb, but Mrythroxylon Coca. Fig. 81. rig. 82. Mowers (f). Fig. 80. Floriferous 'brancli (4). Fig. 83. Long. sect, of flower. generally near the base,^ into three branches whose stigmatiferous
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 50 NATVRAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. alternate and five superposed, all united among themselves below in a tube from â wbicli tbey separate,^ eacb supporting a bilocular introrse versatile antber debiscing by two longitudinal clefts.^ The gynseceum is free, formed of an ovary generally tbree celled, tbe two posterior cells being surmounted by a style divided more or less bigb, but Mrythroxylon Coca. Fig. 81. rig. 82. Mowers (f). Fig. 80. Floriferous 'brancli (4). Fig. 83. Long. sect, of flower. generally near the base,^ into three branches whose stigmatiferous summit is swollen into a head or club. There is generally but one fertile cell, while the others are empty and often very little developed; the anterior one is fertile presenting in its internal angle one, or more rarely two descendent ovules, with micropyle looking outwards and up- wards.* The fruit is a drupe accompanied at the base by the re- mains of the calyx and androceum, and with a stone, often thia, containing a seed whose coats cover an albumen^ of variable thickness. 1 The tase of their free part is often encircled by an exterior ring or collarette, entire or crenate, formed by the superior edge of the tube. 2 Consequently often extrorse in the expanded flower ; the position which it occupies at first in certain living species such as E. Coca. ^ It is in the Indian Sethias, (of which it is pro- posed to make a completely distinct genus) and in some Brazilian species that the union of the styles extend highest. * It has two coats. * It is sometimes reduced to a membrane, oftener it is fleshy, thick round the radicle, and towards the back of the 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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