. The natural history of plants. Botany. 130 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. pit on the opposite side. It is between this pit and the two posterior sepals that we find a little tongue-shaped petal in Codarium, which was formerly considered a distinct genus.' The gynseceum in this section is very excentric, shortly stipitate, and consists, as m Bialium generally, of an ovary surmounted by a subulate style, which is inflexed in the bud so that its scarcely dilated stigmatiferous apex is bent backwards and downwards towards the placenta. This bears two more or less oblique descending anatropous ovules
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 130 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. pit on the opposite side. It is between this pit and the two posterior sepals that we find a little tongue-shaped petal in Codarium, which was formerly considered a distinct genus.' The gynseceum in this section is very excentric, shortly stipitate, and consists, as m Bialium generally, of an ovary surmounted by a subulate style, which is inflexed in the bud so that its scarcely dilated stigmatiferous apex is bent backwards and downwards towards the placenta. This bears two more or less oblique descending anatropous ovules with their micropyles superior and exterior. The fruit is a nearly globular berry, with a glabrous or velvety exocarp of variable thickness, and an endocarp forming a sort of pulp surrounding one or two seeds. Withm the seed-coats is a copious horny albumen surrounding a green embryo with flattened cotyledons, which are more or less unsym- metrical at the base and sometimes a little folded, and a short obtuse swollen superior radicle. DiaHum (Arouna) 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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