. The natural history of plants. Botany. Alectryon exceUum. Fig. 363. Flower (4). Fig. 364. Longitudinal section of flower. Beside the preceding genera, but rather doubtfully, we place three exceptional types having the pinnate leaves and solitary ovules of Melicocca and Schleichera, with the mi- cropyle directed downwards and out- wards ; the Huerteas, trees from Peru and Antilles, whose flowers have five petals, but whose two ovary cells are incomplete, the disk having the five glands inter- posed to the stamens, not exterior; the Aleetryons (fig. 365), trees from New Zealand, whose fiowers
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Alectryon exceUum. Fig. 363. Flower (4). Fig. 364. Longitudinal section of flower. Beside the preceding genera, but rather doubtfully, we place three exceptional types having the pinnate leaves and solitary ovules of Melicocca and Schleichera, with the mi- cropyle directed downwards and out- wards ; the Huerteas, trees from Peru and Antilles, whose flowers have five petals, but whose two ovary cells are incomplete, the disk having the five glands inter- posed to the stamens, not exterior; the Aleetryons (fig. 365), trees from New Zealand, whose fiowers are apetalous, with a gynseceum and fruit reduced to a single carpel, and whose stamens are neither exterior nor interior to the disk, but encircled at their base by the nearly annular lobes; Eriandrostachys, a shrub from Madagascar, having long male spikes loaded with glomerules, in which the sepals, five or six in number, are arranged with great regularity around the disk and the eight stanjens interior to it, but forming an irregular envelope because they are very unequal, the outer ones being short, thick,. Fig. 365. Longitudinal sec- tion of fruit (f).. 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, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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