. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fternandra (Eihessia) cordata.^ MELASTOMAOE^. ' 23 as there are ovarian cells. In the internal angle of the latter, near the base, is a sahent placenta, conical or nearly So, directed Obliquely upwards and outwards, covered with anatropous ovules. The fruit is a capsule surrounded by the coriaceous receptacle, ' Astronia maerophyiia. which finally bursts and roleasBS the fruit proper. The nervures of the receptacle remain after the decay of" the interposed parenchyma, and then form an open iietwork. The seeds are small, numerous, narrow, with basil
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fternandra (Eihessia) cordata.^ MELASTOMAOE^. ' 23 as there are ovarian cells. In the internal angle of the latter, near the base, is a sahent placenta, conical or nearly So, directed Obliquely upwards and outwards, covered with anatropous ovules. The fruit is a capsule surrounded by the coriaceous receptacle, ' Astronia maerophyiia. which finally bursts and roleasBS the fruit proper. The nervures of the receptacle remain after the decay of" the interposed parenchyma, and then form an open iietwork. The seeds are small, numerous, narrow, with basilar hilum and salient raphe. As- tronia comprises trees and shrubs, glabrous or downy, natives of Malaya and Islands of the Pacific. A dozen species are distinguished.^ The leaves are opposite, large, coriaceous, en- tire, trinerved at the base. The flowers' are in terminal compound clusters of cymes. The fundamental organization of the Seed. Lon|. sect, flower in Ptemaudra (fig. 35-38)is the same as in Astronia. It has also a sac-like receptacle of little depth, hemispherical or nearly so, on the straight margin of which are inserted the calyx and petals closely contorted in prefloration, oval or lanceolate, pointed or obtuse at the summit, and the stamens, all nearly equal and formed each of a short subulate filament and an oblong anther obtuse at both ends, with a connective not basally prolonged below the cells, sometimes without appendage, sometimes furnished with a short posterior spur. The top of the ovary is more or less depressed into a hollow which receives the anthers in the bud and which may be covered with a thin layer of glandular tissue with light radiating crests corresponding to the intervals of. 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
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