. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. PiUsp^rma caudatttm. Vertical section of oTary
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. PiUsp^rma caudatttm. Vertical section of oTary (mag.). Pilosperma, Eoibiyo (mag.). Pilosperma. Seed, entire, with its arillode. Pilosperma. Seed cut vertically. li, hilum ; nil micropyle. Embeto exalbuminous, straigJit.—Stem luoody. Leaves Gai'cinia Mangostana. Garcinia Mangostana. Fruit. Berry %vith thick bark, the upper portion removed to show the cells. Flowers polygamo - dioecious, rarely ^ . Calyx 4-6-poly-phyUous. Petals hypogynous, equal with the sepals, rarely more numer- ous. Stamens indefinite, rarely definite, free, or monadelphous or polyadel- phous. OvAET 2--00 -celled, rarely l-celled. Ovolbs 1-00 in the cells, ascending or erect, anatropous. Feuit a capsule, drupe, or herry. opposite, Tebes or SHRUBS, sometimes climbing or epiphytal, with resinous usually yellow or green juice, branches opposite, generally tetragonous, jointed. Leaves opposite, usually decussate, rarely whorled, coriaceous, mostly shining, penninerved, secondary nerves transverse, rarely pellucid-punctate ; petiole jointed at its base to the branch, entire and exstipulate, or very rarely piniiatisect and stipulate {Quiina). Flowers white, yellow or red, regular, polygamo-dicecious, or S , terminal or axillary, solitary, or in fascicles or few-flowered cymes, trichotomous panicles, ,or racemes. Sepals 2-6, rarely more, imbricate, or decussate in pairs, sometimes furnished with pairs of decussate bracts. Petals 2-6, rarely more, hypogynous, i
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