. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 82. Longitudinal section of flower. and which cannot be generically separated from it. The ovary is sur- mounted by a style which is at first rolled up and ends in a slightly dilated stigraatiferous apex; in the cell are two or more descending anatropous ovules whose micropyles look upwards and outwards. The fruit is a more or less oblique large flattened elongated bivalve pod, containing one or few exalbuminous seeds; the fleshy cot3dedons are prolonged into a sort of sheath surrounding the straight superior radicle. Eperua consists of unarmed sle
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 82. Longitudinal section of flower. and which cannot be generically separated from it. The ovary is sur- mounted by a style which is at first rolled up and ends in a slightly dilated stigraatiferous apex; in the cell are two or more descending anatropous ovules whose micropyles look upwards and outwards. The fruit is a more or less oblique large flattened elongated bivalve pod, containing one or few exalbuminous seeds; the fleshy cot3dedons are prolonged into a sort of sheath surrounding the straight superior radicle. Eperua consists of unarmed slender subsarmentose trees > Atibi,., Ghiian., i. 369, t. 142.—J., Gen ,^ 350. DC, Frod/r., ii. 510.—Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 117.—Endl., (?e»., n. 6800.—, Q-en., 580, n. 344.—Sotmcmnia Keck., Mem., u. 1284.—Dimorpha Schbeb., &en., 493.— JPaiizera W., Spec, ii. 540. 2 ACBI., op. cit., 756, t. 303—DC, loc. colvi. — Endl., Gen., n. 6801- — Dimm^ KlJD&E, in Trans. Linn. Soc, ix., t. 20.—Adleria Neck., op. cit., v. 1286. In habit it differs slightly from Epsrua 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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