. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 107. Lonoritnd'mal section of flower. by a style with a tapering stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is elon- gated, flattened, and bivalve, containing one or two seeds, whose funicle is dilated around the hilum, and whose embryo is surrounded by hard albumen. Labichea consists of unarmed shrubs or under- shrubs, with imparipinnate or subdigitate leaves, which may even only possess one leaflet. The flowers form short racemes in the axils of the leaves; each flower is axillary to a caducous bract, and is accompanied by two sterile bractlets. The five kno
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 107. Lonoritnd'mal section of flower. by a style with a tapering stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is elon- gated, flattened, and bivalve, containing one or two seeds, whose funicle is dilated around the hilum, and whose embryo is surrounded by hard albumen. Labichea consists of unarmed shrubs or under- shrubs, with imparipinnate or subdigitate leaves, which may even only possess one leaflet. The flowers form short racemes in the axils of the leaves; each flower is axillary to a caducous bract, and is accompanied by two sterile bractlets. The five known species are Australian.^ Very near to the flower of Cassia is that of Bicorynia,^ with its five thick much-imbricated sepals, and only three (superior) petals. The androceum consists of only two stamens, nearly hypogynous, whose thick, elongated, unequally bowed, warty or rugose, extrorse two-celled anthers dehisce by two short subapical clefts, and are supported by thick filaments, one of them being much the longer. The ' Gaudich., in Freycin. Voy. Bot., 485, t. 112.—DC, Fro3/r., ii. 507.—Endl., <?em., n. 6782.—B. H., aen., 573, n. 328. ' These stamens, though seemingly super- posed to the two posterior sepals, are always un- equal, and appear as if of different ages; the anther of one of them is acuter and narrower, and oftentimes contains no pollen. ' Benth., Fiwum. PI. Siigel., 41; Fl. Aus- tral., ii. 292.—Paxt., Mag. Bot., x. 149, icon.— LiNDL. & Paxt., Fl. Qa/rd., t. 52.—Meissw., in Sot. Zeit. (1855), 12.—Walp., Uep., i. 841; V. 561; Ann., ii. 442 ; iv. 600. * Benth., in SooTc. Jowrn., ii. 82.—EifDl., Gen., n. 6772'.—B. H., Gen., 571, 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 &am
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