. The natural history of plants. Botany. 440 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. is surmounted by a style almost immediately divided into three or four elongate lobes, in tbe form of thick, flat, fleshy strips, obtuse at the summit, expanded, then reflexed on the top of the ovary; all their upper surface is covered with fine stigmatic papillae. In each of the three or four (com- Psiioxijion mauntianwn. pj^g^g qj. gometimes rather incomplete) cells of the ovary, there is an axile and multiovulate placen- ta. The fruit is a small berry nearly globular, accompanied at its base by the calyx, and the numero
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 440 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. is surmounted by a style almost immediately divided into three or four elongate lobes, in tbe form of thick, flat, fleshy strips, obtuse at the summit, expanded, then reflexed on the top of the ovary; all their upper surface is covered with fine stigmatic papillae. In each of the three or four (com- Psiioxijion mauntianwn. pj^g^g qj. gometimes rather incomplete) cells of the ovary, there is an axile and multiovulate placen- ta. The fruit is a small berry nearly globular, accompanied at its base by the calyx, and the numerous seeds it encloses have a large fleshy embryo. The only species' of this genus is a shrub of the Mascarene Isles, the leaves of which, analogous to those of some Bixacese of the Flacourtia series, are alternate, entire, penninerved, thick, covered with fine glandular punctuations; the fiowers, unattractive, a little larger than those of Grypteronia (fig. 416, 417), are grouped in the axil of the leaves, in compound clusters of 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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