. The natural history of plants. Botany. 130 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. In tlie male flower, it bears first a calyx of five (more rarely of four or six) sepals, free or tmited at the base, quiacuncially imbricated or valyate in prsefloration. The alternate petals are the same in Ci'oton Fig. 196. Flower-tearing and fruit-tearing branch {\). number, valvate or more or less imbricated in the bud, sometimes too narrow for their edges even to touch. Between the petals is seen an equal number of alternate glands (fig. 197), sometimes very small, or even quite disappearing. The androceum,
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 130 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. In tlie male flower, it bears first a calyx of five (more rarely of four or six) sepals, free or tmited at the base, quiacuncially imbricated or valyate in prsefloration. The alternate petals are the same in Ci'oton Fig. 196. Flower-tearing and fruit-tearing branch {\). number, valvate or more or less imbricated in the bud, sometimes too narrow for their edges even to touch. Between the petals is seen an equal number of alternate glands (fig. 197), sometimes very small, or even quite disappearing. The androceum, in two verticUs, the pieces being often the number as the sepals or petals, is often diplostemonous; there are, in this case, five stamens alternate Kl. Gynamhlosia Esohb. Sep- tttllon Rafin. Elotsehiphytum H. Bn. lasiogyne Kl. Lmeadema Kl. Medea Kl. MicranthU H. Bn. Mieroeroton Geiseb. Mouguia Chapel. Mi/riogomphus Diedb, Oealia Kl. FdUmostigma Maet. Petalottigma Makt. (neo F. Muell.), Pilitiophgtum Kl. Fodocalyx Kl. Podostachys Kl. Sieinocarpm Boebh. Eieinoidea T. Stoli- danthus H. Bn. Tiglium Kl. Timandra Kl. (?) Tridesmia Loub,. 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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