Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 . Piron, the painter to the expedition, who wasof our party, took feveral drawings of the land-fcape. The round hills, covered with tall trees,which bounded the horizon added greatly to thebeauty of the profpe<5l. We wxre obliged to return back by the roadwe had come^ in order to arrive at the oppofitefide of the lake. Piron returned on board. I difcovercd an evergreen tree, which has itsnutfituated, like that of the acajou/upon aflefhyreceptacle much larger than itfe
Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 . Piron, the painter to the expedition, who wasof our party, took feveral drawings of the land-fcape. The round hills, covered with tall trees,which bounded the horizon added greatly to thebeauty of the profpe<5l. We wxre obliged to return back by the roadwe had come^ in order to arrive at the oppofitefide of the lake. Piron returned on board. I difcovercd an evergreen tree, which has itsnutfituated, like that of the acajou/upon aflefhyreceptacle much larger than itfelfo I thereforeiiamed this new genus exocarpos. It has hermaphrodite flowers upon the fame pe-duncle with others which are diflin6lly male andfemale. The male flowers have a calix divided into fiveroundifh leaves ; they have no corolla ; the fta-mina, which are five in number, are fmall andattached to the calix between its divifions; thegermen abortive. The female flowers have a calix fimilar to thatof the male ; but neither corolla nor ftamina:the ovarium is globular, with a fiiort liyle; theftigma circular and flat. In. May.] of la perouse. 199 In the hermaphrodite flowers, the caUx, {la-mina and ovarium are as I have deferibcd themin the others. The fruit is a nut of an almoft fpherical form,and of a blackifli colour, placed upon a receptacle,fleihy, red, divided in the middle, and about threetimes as large as the nut. The kernel is of an oily nature, and of the famefhape with its fliell. The principal charadlers of this plant have ledme to rank it among the terebinthinaceous tribe,next to the anacardium. I have given it thename of exocarpos cuprejjiformh. Explanation of the Figures Plate XIV. Fig. 1. A branch of the exocarpos cuprefli-formls. Fig. 2. Portion of a branch in flower. Fig. o. Gcrmcn, with its ftyle and ftigma. Fig. 4. Fruit. Fig. 5. The fruit divided longitudinally, fliew-ing a cavity in the middle of the flefhy peduncle. Fig. 0. The nut. Fig. 7. Part of the w
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