. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fi&. 46. Flower (|). Fia. 48. Longitudinal section of flower. separating to free several exalbuminous seeds, with rather long funicles, thick coats, and fleshy embryos. All these species are shrubs (usually climbing) or prickly trees (fig. 45), whose alternate bipinnate leaves CasaVpimia swppam,. possess numerous little unsymmetrical leaflets and lateral caducous stipules. The flowers form axiUary or terminal racemes, each flower axillary to its bract. This sec- tion only includes three species, natives of the warmer parts of ; The section
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fi&. 46. Flower (|). Fia. 48. Longitudinal section of flower. separating to free several exalbuminous seeds, with rather long funicles, thick coats, and fleshy embryos. All these species are shrubs (usually climbing) or prickly trees (fig. 45), whose alternate bipinnate leaves CasaVpimia swppam,. possess numerous little unsymmetrical leaflets and lateral caducous stipules. The flowers form axiUary or terminal racemes, each flower axillary to its bract. This sec- tion only includes three species, natives of the warmer parts of ; The section Casalpinaria? is, on the con- trary, American; but its species are very close to the last. They are unarmed, some- times with large leaflets, and possess an oblong or lanceolate oblique or falciform pod, which in C. echinata* is covered with prickles. In C. insignii 2xA pulcherrima^ the long staminal filaments. Fig. 47. Diagram. ' DC, , 482, sect. iii. (part.).—Campecia ADiifS., loo. cit.—JBiancesaToDiM., Nov. Gen.,21. ^ EoxB., Plcmf; Coromcmd., t. 16.—WiaHT, loon., t. 37, 392. ^ B. H., &en., 566,4.—Pomdcma K., Mimos,, t. 44.—Mattnd., Bot., t. 151 (neo L.). * Lamk., Bid., i. 434; III., t. 836. * Foinoicma insignis K., loo. cit. « Sw., Ohs., 166.—G^ETN., Fruct., ii. t. 150.—Sot. Mag,, t. 995.—Fomdcma pulcher- rima 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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