. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 188. Female flower. Fig. 187. Male flower (>f). Fig. 189. Long. sect, of Female flower. surmounted by a style with entire or bifid branches. Maret/a, a small tree from tropical Western Africa, is nearly allied to the pre- ceding genus, whose perianth it has. The stamens, indefinite in number, are inserted upon a glandular receptacle, the cells hanging at first distinct from the connective, afterward rising. The fruits are capsular and the seeds exarillate. Cephalomappa of Borneo has numerous female sepals and 2-3-androus male flowers united in g
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 188. Female flower. Fig. 187. Male flower (>f). Fig. 189. Long. sect, of Female flower. surmounted by a style with entire or bifid branches. Maret/a, a small tree from tropical Western Africa, is nearly allied to the pre- ceding genus, whose perianth it has. The stamens, indefinite in number, are inserted upon a glandular receptacle, the cells hanging at first distinct from the connective, afterward rising. The fruits are capsular and the seeds exarillate. Cephalomappa of Borneo has numerous female sepals and 2-3-androus male flowers united in globular eapitules. Ramelia, a small shrub from IN'ew Caledonia, represents a reduced type of Cleidon and Alchornea. Its trilocular ovary is surmounted by a style ihfundibuHform at the base, then divided into three almost petaloid and stigmatiferous branches, the male flower, with valvate calyx, only containing two or three stamens which alternate with the sepals. Caryodendron, a large tree fr'om the Orinoco, is distinguished by its male flowers, with valvate calyx and four stamens, surrounded by a perigynous disk, which spreads over the bottom of the flowers of both sexes, by its pendent anther cells, and its large fruit, probably indehiscent, of the sisie of a nut, with edible seeds. Platt/gyne, a volubile shrub, with burning hafrs, growing in Cuba, has stamens almost definite in number (from five to eight), borne upon a recep- tacle, with truncate or concave apex, and a female calyx with from five to seven leaves, imbricated or almost valvate, surrounding a trimerous gynseceum. Amperea, consistiug of Australian suffrutescent plants, often with spartoid branches and narrow leaves, sometimes very little developed,. 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, Marc
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