. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 63. Dehiscing fruit. Fig. 60. Diagram. Fig. 62. Gynsecium (i). Fig. 65. Open aeed. Fig. 66. Embryo. supports four free carpellary leaves alternate with those of the perianth.^ Each presents to our notice an inferior ovarian portion enlarged, concave within and furnished with an internal median ridge; an attenuated stylary portion, and a stigmatiferous extremity more or less dilated. At its edges, it is in contact with the neigh- bouring carpellary leaves without effecting any adherence with them at any age ; these four pistillar leaves are valvate
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 63. Dehiscing fruit. Fig. 60. Diagram. Fig. 62. Gynsecium (i). Fig. 65. Open aeed. Fig. 66. Embryo. supports four free carpellary leaves alternate with those of the perianth.^ Each presents to our notice an inferior ovarian portion enlarged, concave within and furnished with an internal median ridge; an attenuated stylary portion, and a stigmatiferous extremity more or less dilated. At its edges, it is in contact with the neigh- bouring carpellary leaves without effecting any adherence with them at any age ; these four pistillar leaves are valvate with each other in prefloration; and, by their dilated ovarian portions, they thus circumscribe four cells superposed to the leaves of the perianth and consequently alternate with the divisions of the style. Near the base of each carpellary leaf are inserted two ovules, separated from each other by the base of the prominence formed by the internal longitudinal ridge; and thus two ovules are found enclosed in each of the cavities of the ovary. They are collateral, ascending, ana- ser. 2, iii. 314) ovoid, witli six or sight longi- tudinal farrows. In water it hecomes spheri- cal, with bands, three of which alternately bear papillae. • On the structure of the gynsecium and the mode of placentation, see H. Bn. 'Adansonia, xi. 228. The branches of the style correspond, not to the cells, but to the incomplete oyaiiai; 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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