. The natural history of plants. Botany. 438 NATURAL HI8T0BY OF PLANTS. Tetranthera japomca. o singly or in variable numbers from a little axillary bud; tbey are more rarely united into a sort of raceme or corymb on a common leafless axis. Next to Tetranthera and Cylicodaphne come tbree genera with nearly similar flowers enclosed in scaly buds. The flowers are solitary in Dodecadenia, numerous in ActinodapJine and Litscea; of these last two genera the former has nine stamens, the latter from four to six. Hapknidium, in other respects resembling ActinodapJine, has two-celled anthers. This is al
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 438 NATURAL HI8T0BY OF PLANTS. Tetranthera japomca. o singly or in variable numbers from a little axillary bud; tbey are more rarely united into a sort of raceme or corymb on a common leafless axis. Next to Tetranthera and Cylicodaphne come tbree genera with nearly similar flowers enclosed in scaly buds. The flowers are solitary in Dodecadenia, numerous in ActinodapJine and Litscea; of these last two genera the former has nine stamens, the latter from four to six. Hapknidium, in other respects resembling ActinodapJine, has two-celled anthers. This is also the case in Polyadenia, Aperula, Lindera, Fig. 257. and Laurus; but in these the flowers are sur- Tctramerous male flower, roundcd, uot bv bud-scales, but bv an involucre diagram. ' j « comparable to that of Tetranthera. In Aperula there are from six to nine fertile stamens, and the innermost (from four to six) have lateral basilar glands. In Polyadenia all the stamens possess these. In Lindera^ (the Benzoin-plants), of which an American species has long been cultivated in our gardens under the name oiLaurus Benzoin,^ the flowers (figs. 258-260) are dioecious,. lAndera Benzoin,. 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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