. The natural history of plants. Botany. GELASTRAOE^. 11 Guyana, with leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved, reticulate, subtriplinerved at the base, accompanied by two very small caducous stipules. Its flowers are inserted in the axil of the leaves in (spurious) umbels supported by a small common peduncle. lY. AZIMA SERIES. In this group, long considered as forming a special family under the name of Salvadoracece, we may study first Asima ^ scandens (fig. 13-15), formerly described as type of the genus Actegeton? Its flowers are ordinarily tetramerous and poly
. The natural history of plants. Botany. GELASTRAOE^. 11 Guyana, with leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved, reticulate, subtriplinerved at the base, accompanied by two very small caducous stipules. Its flowers are inserted in the axil of the leaves in (spurious) umbels supported by a small common peduncle. lY. AZIMA SERIES. In this group, long considered as forming a special family under the name of Salvadoracece, we may study first Asima ^ scandens (fig. 13-15), formerly described as type of the genus Actegeton? Its flowers are ordinarily tetramerous and polygamo-dicecious. The calyx, gamo- sepalous and valvate, is divided above into four lobes.^ The petals, alternate, sessile, narrow and elongated, soon cease to touch at the margins. In the intervals are inserted, on a narrow receptacle, four stamens whose thick free filaments, in the male flower, are inserted round a rudimentary gyneecium, and are each surmounted by a bilocu- lar anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. It is sterile in the female flowers in which the corolla and androecium are united below in a very short tube, with a free superior gynaecium, consisting Auma [Actegeton) 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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