. The natural history of plants. Botany. 316 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. They are shrubs from the tropical regions of Asia, Oceania and especially tropical Africa. Burchellia (fig. 305), also from south Africa, has flowers closely resembling in their organization those of some Gardenias, ynih narrow-pointed divisions Bunhellia Fig. 305. Group of young fruit. in the persistent calyx; a contorted corolla the throat of which is covered with hairs; anthers en- closed, sessile or nearly so, basifixed, surmounted by a prolongation of the connective, and two mul- tiovulate ovarian cells, wit
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 316 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. They are shrubs from the tropical regions of Asia, Oceania and especially tropical Africa. Burchellia (fig. 305), also from south Africa, has flowers closely resembling in their organization those of some Gardenias, ynih narrow-pointed divisions Bunhellia Fig. 305. Group of young fruit. in the persistent calyx; a contorted corolla the throat of which is covered with hairs; anthers en- closed, sessile or nearly so, basifixed, surmounted by a prolongation of the connective, and two mul- tiovulate ovarian cells, with a fleshy fruit. But the style, short and enlarged in the middle, terminates in a truncate denticulate stigmatiferous extremity, and the flowers terminal and sessile, accompanied with bracts like stipules, are grouped in a contracted cyme which has been erroneously taken for an In Flagenium, formerly referred to the Lonicerece, the flowers are nearly those of a Burchellia, with narrow and elongate persistent calycinal divisions, and a contorted corolla. The fruit is also said to be fleshy; but the contracted and biparous cymes occupy the axil of the leaves, and in each of the two cells .the ellipsoid placentas bear only a few ovules, the upper ascending and the lower descending. Ordinarily one of them assumes a much greater development than the others. It is a shrub of Madagascar with opposite and lanceolate leaves Scyphiphora, a glabrous shrubby plant of tropical Asia and Oceania, the habit and foliage of which are nearly those of a Ehizophorea, has pentamerous and oftener tetramerous flowers, with a contorted corolla, an epigynous lobed disk and two or three ovules in each cell. In the latter case, the two upper are often ascending and the lower descending. The fruit is a drupe of two putamens, with false transverse partitions dividing them into monospermous cellules, and the flowers are in pedunculate axillary Please note that these images are extracted from
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