. The natural history of plants. Botany. r4 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. possible. Some, as P. glaucescens of India, have caducous sepals; ^ others, as P- triphylla^ have sepals less unequal, and the stamens are sometimes not more than six in number. It is on this account that we may consider it as only a section of the genus Polt/gala^ the 8alo- monias,^ small Asiatic herbaceous species, which have but slightly unequal sepals, and four or, more rarely, five or six stamens. Some species are parasites, discoloured, with squamiform leaves.^ Thus constituted, this genus contains about two hundred s
. The natural history of plants. Botany. r4 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. possible. Some, as P. glaucescens of India, have caducous sepals; ^ others, as P- triphylla^ have sepals less unequal, and the stamens are sometimes not more than six in number. It is on this account that we may consider it as only a section of the genus Polt/gala^ the 8alo- monias,^ small Asiatic herbaceous species, which have but slightly unequal sepals, and four or, more rarely, five or six stamens. Some species are parasites, discoloured, with squamiform leaves.^ Thus constituted, this genus contains about two hundred species,* natives of all parts of the world, more abundant in warm and Muraltia Fig. 108. Seed(l). Fig. 107. Dehiscent fruit (±). Fig. 109. Long. sect. of seed. temperate climates, rare in Australia, where it is confined to the tropical regions. - It has been proposed to make a genus, Semeiocardium (Zoll. in. N'at. Tijds. Ned. Ind. xvii. ex Hassk. he. cit. i. 155).âB. H. Gen. 974. - LouK. Fl. Cochinch. 14.âDC. Frodr. i. 333. â^A. S. H. & MoQ. in Mem. Mm. xviii. t. 29, fig. 3; xix. 330.âDeless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 19.âWigKt, III. t. 22.âEndl. Gen. n. 5646. âB. H. Gen. 136, n. 1.âH. Bn. va. Payer Fam. Nat. 310. " The genua Epirhizanthes has been made of them (Bl. Cat. Sort. Suit. 25.âDO. Frodr. xi. 44.âMid. Fl. i. p. ii. 127, t. 15. âHook. tf. in Trans. Linn. See. xxiii. 158. Walp. Ann. vii. 243). â * jAca. Fl. Austr. t. 233, 412, 413.âAubl. Quian. t. 226.âH. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. t. 506-512.âA. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 5, t. 8a«-89.âDeless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 15-19, 21.â Wight, Icon. t. 67, 946.âTh-w. Fmm. Fl. Zeyl. 22, 400.âHook. ±. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 200- 207; in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxiii. 158 [Salomonia). âBenth. Fl. SongTc. 43, 44; Fl. Austral, i. 138. âHakv. et SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 80.âGriseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 27.âA. Gkay, Man. ed. 6, 120.â Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 82.âC. Gay, Fl. CHI. i. 234.âMm. Fl. i.
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