. The natural history of plants. Botany. 322 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. the two ovarian cells, an indefinite number of pendent or campylo- tropous and recurved ovules. The other, Osbornia, has a perianth still more exceptional, since, the corolla being entirely absent, the sepals, eight in number, are imbricate in two series. The cells of Eucalyptus Globulus. â ^i. i^^^^m^.-a^': ^-^. Fig. 301. Flower (f). Fig. 302. Long. sect, of flower. the inferior ovary are also two in number, and often incomplete. In the lower part of their internal angle is seen a placentary mass covered with anatropous o
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 322 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. the two ovarian cells, an indefinite number of pendent or campylo- tropous and recurved ovules. The other, Osbornia, has a perianth still more exceptional, since, the corolla being entirely absent, the sepals, eight in number, are imbricate in two series. The cells of Eucalyptus Globulus. â ^i. i^^^^m^.-a^': ^-^. Fig. 301. Flower (f). Fig. 302. Long. sect, of flower. the inferior ovary are also two in number, and often incomplete. In the lower part of their internal angle is seen a placentary mass covered with anatropous ovules. In both genera the leaves are opposite and penninerved. III. CHAM^LAUCIUM SEEIES. Chamcelaucium' (fig. 304, 305) has flowers ordinarily hermaphro- dite'^ and pentamerous, with a hollow receptacle, very variable in form, obconical, tubular or urceolate, at the bottom of which is im- bedded the ovary, whilst its upper opening bears a calyx of five small sepals, entire or ciliate, often petaloid. The five petals, longer and inserted in the intervals, are rounded, concave, imbricate in the bud and ordinarily very caducous. The androeeium is formed of two verticils of stamens,^ superposed, five to the sepals and five to the petals and formed each of a short filament, inflexed in the bud ' Desp. Milm. Mus. v. 39, t. 3, fig. B.âDC. the margin of the disk, in a single series ; but Prodr. iii. 209.âSpach, Suit, d, Buffon, iv. 110. in reality they belong to two verticils, and the Endl. Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 192; Gen. n. 6280. oppoaitipetalous are primarily the more ele- âScHATjER, ifyrt. Zeroc. t. 4 A.âH. Bn. Payer vated. With the stamens alternate an equal Fam. Nat. 368.âB. H. Gen. 698, n. 6.âDecalo- number of tongues, often equal to the staminal phium Timcz. BuU. Mosc. (), i. 153. filaments, and ordinarily, for this reason, de- ^ The gynaeoium may be sterile. scribed as staminodes ; they are only perhaps ' They have been described in this genus, the lobes of the disk,
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