. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. GYMNOSPERMIA 309 surface of it 2 ovules (0) (macrosporangia). Each of the latter scales is looked upon as an open carpellary — Figf. 378.—Saral-gacch or Khasia Pine (Pimts JOiasya) a. Bract scale, c, Cone, cl, Ovuliferous scale or carpellary leat. o, Ovule, leaf or carpel (a female flower) arising in the axil of the bract-scale. From this point of view each female spike or cone is an inflorescence with many female flowers or carpellary leaves, each situated in the axil of a bract. From another point of view the whole female spike or cone is looked
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. GYMNOSPERMIA 309 surface of it 2 ovules (0) (macrosporangia). Each of the latter scales is looked upon as an open carpellary — Figf. 378.—Saral-gacch or Khasia Pine (Pimts JOiasya) a. Bract scale, c, Cone, cl, Ovuliferous scale or carpellary leat. o, Ovule, leaf or carpel (a female flower) arising in the axil of the bract-scale. From this point of view each female spike or cone is an inflorescence with many female flowers or carpellary leaves, each situated in the axil of a bract. From another point of view the whole female spike or cone is looked upon as a single achlamydeous female flower with many carpels, tlie ovuliferous scales being looked upon as placental outgrowths from the bract-scales, and the bract-scales, according to this view, are the car- pels or carpellary leaves, and not 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 Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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