. The natural history of plants. Botany. 353 - NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Javanese and Malay trees or shrubs, tlie flowers, regular, 4-5- merous, are also very nearly those of Euphoria; they have from six to nine stamens, an ovary with three or four cells, surmounted by a style immediately branching out into three or four radiated stigmatiferous lobes, and the fruit is sometimes divided into lobes, sometimes entire and dehiscent in several berries. The arillate seeds have a thick and fleshy embryo, with unequal and superposed cotyledons. The leaves are pinnate with a stem -often winged with op
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 353 - NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Javanese and Malay trees or shrubs, tlie flowers, regular, 4-5- merous, are also very nearly those of Euphoria; they have from six to nine stamens, an ovary with three or four cells, surmounted by a style immediately branching out into three or four radiated stigmatiferous lobes, and the fruit is sometimes divided into lobes, sometimes entire and dehiscent in several berries. The arillate seeds have a thick and fleshy embryo, with unequal and superposed cotyledons. The leaves are pinnate with a stem -often winged with opposite folioles, sessile, often punctate and the inferior ones remain small and stipuliform, like those of Pometia. The Cupmia (fig. 361, 362) give their name to a sub-series in which the fruit appears to be always capsular, dehiscing by a number of longitudinal clefts teriag into the constitution of the gynseceum. Around the cir- cular disk is found a regular calyx whose pieces are more or less imbricate, and sometimes val- vate or nearly so. The stamens Fig. 361. Flower {\). Fig. 362. Longitudinal are short or nearly enclosed, or section of flower. , , , rm i , i long exserted. ihe latter occurs in the Matayha, without however serving to separate them generically from Cupania, on. account of the numerous intermediate arrange- ments met with. There are species of Cupania in all the tropical regions of both worlds, principally in South America. Eriocoelum is closely allied, but in this five sepals are valvate or nearly so, and the stamens, eight to ten in number, correspond to as many radiating grooves, separating from one another the lobes of a large and double disk surrounding their gynseceum. They are trees from western tropical Africa. Crossonephelis, a small tree with paripinnate leaves, has tetramerous and apetalous flowers whose calyx is valvate, and whose large disk is divided into five alternate lobes. This disk is reflexed, after the manner of a gamopetalous corolla,
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