. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 111. Fruit. Fig. 110. Long. sect, of flower {\). Fig. 112. Embryo (f). filaments free, or united for a variable distance among themselves or with the petals, and of bilocular, introrse anthers, dehiscing by short clefts. The stamens are placed as in the Milkworts. The gynseceum, surrounded by a more or less thick circular disk, is formed of a superior unilocular ovary, tapering above into an arched style whose swollen summit is covered with stigmatic papillae. In the ovary are two more or less prominent parietal placentas, each bearing from two to
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 111. Fruit. Fig. 110. Long. sect, of flower {\). Fig. 112. Embryo (f). filaments free, or united for a variable distance among themselves or with the petals, and of bilocular, introrse anthers, dehiscing by short clefts. The stamens are placed as in the Milkworts. The gynseceum, surrounded by a more or less thick circular disk, is formed of a superior unilocular ovary, tapering above into an arched style whose swollen summit is covered with stigmatic papillae. In the ovary are two more or less prominent parietal placentas, each bearing from two to six ovules, at fiist descendent, then more or less oblique in all ways, anatropous, with micropyle constantly directed towards the placenta. The fruit is a coriaceous berry, con- taining one or a small number of seeds whose coats cover a thick albuminous or exalbuminous embryo, fleshy cotyledons and a short non-prominent radicle. Xanthophyllum^ which may be defined as Poly- galacece with pluriovulate parietal placentas and fleshy fruit,^ consists of trees and shrubs from tropical Asia and Australia. The ' KoxB. PL Ooromand. ui. 82, t. 24; Fl. Ind. ii. 221.—Endl. Qm. n. 5657.—Payee Fam. Nat. 109.—B. H. Qen. 139, 974, n. \Z.—JmUa Bl. Bijdr. 60 (neo Wall.).—Macintyria F. MuELL. Fragm, Fhyt. Austral, v. 8, 57. ^ We should perhaps comprise in this series, whose characters would in this case be modi- fied, Moutabea (Adbl. &uian. 679, t. 274 ;—J. Gen. 420;—Endl. Gen. a. 4265 ; Makt. Fl. Bras. Ebenae. 13, t. 5, 6;—B. H. Gen. 140, n. 14; Cryptostomum Schreb. Gen. n. 344;— Acostn K. et Pav. Prodr. i. t. 1; Fl. Per. i. 5, 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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