. The natural history of plants. Botany. 54 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. completely, or even disappear altogether.^ The fruit is a drupe of which, the mesocarp is frequently thin, and the stone hard and bony, with its walls often containing resiniferous hollows, and with one or more mono- or dispermous cells. The seeds contain under their thin coats a fleshy albumen, sometimes of granular appearance, sur- rounding an axUe embryo with elliptical cotyledons and superior cylindrical radicle more or less long. Sovmirl. Fig. 96. Flower (|). Fig. 97. Long. sect, of flower. Thus comprised, the genus Ho
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 54 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. completely, or even disappear altogether.^ The fruit is a drupe of which, the mesocarp is frequently thin, and the stone hard and bony, with its walls often containing resiniferous hollows, and with one or more mono- or dispermous cells. The seeds contain under their thin coats a fleshy albumen, sometimes of granular appearance, sur- rounding an axUe embryo with elliptical cotyledons and superior cylindrical radicle more or less long. Sovmirl. Fig. 96. Flower (|). Fig. 97. Long. sect, of flower. Thus comprised, the genus Houmiri, divided (principally according to the number of the stamens) into five sections,^ which might possibly be considered as distinct genera, contains some twenty species ^ which except one belong to tropical America. All are woody and generally glabrous and balsamic. They have alternate simple leaves,* entire or crenulate, coriaceous, and exstipulate, flowers of whitish colour, disposed in the axils of the leaves at the summit of the branches in ramifled or corymbiform cymes, sometimes nniparous towards the apex. This small family, distinguished in 1819 by A. P. de CandoUe,* according to him contained only Linum and Eadtola, considered formerly by A. L. de Jussieu,® as 'â ^genera Caryophylleis affiniaP The Hugonias^ ranged by the latter '^ among the Mahacece, and by most authors of this century after the Chlcenacece^ took finally a ' They have a double coat. 2 HOUMIRI sect. 5. 1. Aubrya (H. Bn). 2. Saccoglottis (Makt.). 3. Sumirium^.^'). 4. Vaiitaneoides (Rich.). 5. Vantanea Atibl.). 3 Mast. Ifov. &m. et Spec. ii. 142, t. 198 ; 146 (^Saccoglottis), 147 {Selleria).âA. Jtjss. in A. S. S. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 88, 90 (Be^fecja).âWalp. Aim. iv. 583, 685 [Saccoglottis). â ⢠In vernation often involute. s TUor Mem. ed. 1, 217; Prodr. i. 423, Ord. 23.âLinacetB Lindl. Introd. ed 2, 89; 7eg. Kingd. 485, Ord. 183. " Gen. (1789), 303. ' Op. at. 275. 8 DC. Pr
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