. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 72. Flower (f). Fig. 73. Long. sect, of flower. them five stamens each formed of a free filament and an exserted and introrse anther, bilocular and dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. Pive other stamens, alternate with and shorter than the preceding, of the same organisation, constitute a second verticil; and with the ten parts of the andrcecium alternate an equal number of glands, also inserted in the throat, elongate, nearly petaloid, glabrous, obtuse^ at the summit, long contracted towards the base. The gynsecium is quite at the bottom of the
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 72. Flower (f). Fig. 73. Long. sect, of flower. them five stamens each formed of a free filament and an exserted and introrse anther, bilocular and dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. Pive other stamens, alternate with and shorter than the preceding, of the same organisation, constitute a second verticil; and with the ten parts of the andrcecium alternate an equal number of glands, also inserted in the throat, elongate, nearly petaloid, glabrous, obtuse^ at the summit, long contracted towards the base. The gynsecium is quite at the bottom of the receptacle, accompanied at the base by ten very small hypogynous glands each of which corresponds to a prolongation of one of the stamens. The ovary is free, nearly sessile, covered with hairs, surmounted by a terminal slender style, the exserted summit of which is dilated to a stigmati- ferous head. In the single cell of the ovary is seen a parietal placenta bearing, a little below the summit, a single descending anatropous ovule, with micropyle superior and exterior. The fruit is a naked drupe (?), finally dry, enclosing one descending seed, with thick fleshy embryo and short superior radicle, and accom- panied by an unabundant fleshy albumen. Idnostoma, of which only one or two Indian^ species are known, consists of glabrous ' Such ia probably tbe signification of the tube which, in generic descriptions, we shall often refer to the perianth, following most authors, the question being still undecided. On these coats are delineated more or less clearly the linear descending threads of the stamiual filaments, partly concealed by hairs. ^ Or more or less crenate. ' Gmpp. Calc. Joum. of Nat. Mist. iv. 234, not~WAijV. Ann. i. 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
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