. The natural history of plants. Botany. BHAMNAOE^. 61 Fhylica Fig. 55. Flower (|). Fig. 66. Long. sect, of flower. and the fruit, equally inferior, conformed to that of HeUnus, finally divides into three cocci dehiscing internally, but destitute of a columella. Nesiota, a shrub from the island of St. Helena, covered with a whitish down, has opposite broad and oval-oblong leaves, and flowers disposed in loose cymes. The fruit is that of Phylica; but from the superior opening of the deep sac formed by the receptacle emerges the summit of the pericarp proper, which represents a sort of
. The natural history of plants. Botany. BHAMNAOE^. 61 Fhylica Fig. 55. Flower (|). Fig. 66. Long. sect, of flower. and the fruit, equally inferior, conformed to that of HeUnus, finally divides into three cocci dehiscing internally, but destitute of a columella. Nesiota, a shrub from the island of St. Helena, covered with a whitish down, has opposite broad and oval-oblong leaves, and flowers disposed in loose cymes. The fruit is that of Phylica; but from the superior opening of the deep sac formed by the receptacle emerges the summit of the pericarp proper, which represents a sort of small conical cover. In Lasiodiscus, of which two African species are known, one from the Western tropical region, the other from Madagascar, the leaves are also opposite, large, glabrous, and accompanied by wide and long pointed iuterpetiolate stipules, sometimes free, sometimes more or less connate in pairs, straight and imbricate with them, for some time persistent. The flowers in axillary cymes, the inferior ovary of which is surmounted by a style articulate at the base, are succeeded by a fruit equally inferior, depressed, slightly convex at the summit and areolate. Trymalium, Australian shrubs belonging to a distinct sub- series, exclusively oceanic, has alternate leaves, generally to- mentose, with a simple or stellate, whitish or rusty down. The inferior ovary is surmounted by an annular or 5-lobed disk, sur- rounded by coloured epigynous sepals, and petals in a hood capping an equal number of stamens., The fruit, inferior, capsular and dehiscent, like that of Nesiota, is generally surmounted by a conical projection which represents the summit of the ovarian cells; it is the same with that of Pomaderris^ Australian and New Zealand shrubs, with numerous flowers generally disposed, like those of Trymalium, in great ramified groups of cymes; they are distin- guished from Trymalium by the absence of petals or their being nearly flat, too little developed to cover the stamen
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