. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBULLIFEB^. 167 the leaves are simple, palmatifid or compound-digitate, and the styles are either united to a small extent or free to the base. The albumen is often, but not constantly, ruminate. Gurtisia faginea (fig. 213-217), a small tree from the Cape, ordinarily referred to the family of the Goriiacece, differs in habit and Ctirtisia Fig. 216. Fruit (f). Fig. 213. Flower (f). Fig. 215. Long. sect, of flower. Fig. 217. Trans. sect, of fruit. foliage from Hedera, but has its flower, constructed on the type 4. Its obconical receptacle lodge
. The natural history of plants. Botany. UMBULLIFEB^. 167 the leaves are simple, palmatifid or compound-digitate, and the styles are either united to a small extent or free to the base. The albumen is often, but not constantly, ruminate. Gurtisia faginea (fig. 213-217), a small tree from the Cape, ordinarily referred to the family of the Goriiacece, differs in habit and Ctirtisia Fig. 216. Fruit (f). Fig. 213. Flower (f). Fig. 215. Long. sect, of flower. Fig. 217. Trans. sect, of fruit. foliage from Hedera, but has its flower, constructed on the type 4. Its obconical receptacle lodges in its cavity the inferior ovary with four oppositipetalous cells, and bears on its margin four small sepals, four petals normally valvate and four stamens. The conical summit of the ovary is covered by a coloured glandular disk enclosing the base of the style which is erect and divided only at the summit into four small stigmatiferous lobes. In the internal angle of each ovarian cell is a de- Cm-tisia faginea. scending ovule with micropyle superior and exterior. The fruit is a small drupe with a four-celled putamen and descending seeds; the abundant albumen surrounds an elon- gate embryo. Gurtisia has opposite, per- sistent, oval-oblong, penninerved, dentate Fig. 214. Diagram, coriaceous leaves, pubescent beneath, and its flowers are in a terminal ramifled cluster, charged with biparous cymes, with articulate pedicels. The Merytas (fig. 218, 219) are also anomalous Araliem, but from another point of view : they have dioecious flowers. The males (fig. 218), as well as the females, have a simple perianth formed of a variable number of valvate petals. The stamens are fertile and alternate with the parts of the perianth. They are inserted on a little-developed obconical receptacle and have no gynascium. The petals of the females are equally variable in number and surmount. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced
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