. The natural history of plants. Botany. 90 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. compressed oblong-falciform coriaceous pod. The seeds have winged edges and are surmounted by a sort of falciform blade, and contain within their coats a fleshy embryo thinly surrounded by albumen. The only known species of this genus' is a large Brazilian tree,. Fi&. 61. Fia. 62. Mower (4). Longitudinal section of flower. covered with rust-coloured dowii; its leaves are alternate impari- pinnate, and its flowers form a large terminal ramified raceme. The flowers of Thylacanthv,^ resemble those of Batesia: we find the s
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 90 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. compressed oblong-falciform coriaceous pod. The seeds have winged edges and are surmounted by a sort of falciform blade, and contain within their coats a fleshy embryo thinly surrounded by albumen. The only known species of this genus' is a large Brazilian tree,. Fi&. 61. Fia. 62. Mower (4). Longitudinal section of flower. covered with rust-coloured dowii; its leaves are alternate impari- pinnate, and its flowers form a large terminal ramified raceme. The flowers of Thylacanthv,^ resemble those of Batesia: we find the same imbricated perianth, with the petals tapering towards their base; the same androceum of ten stamens, with inflexed filaments; the same central gynaeceum, with a pauciovulate ovary. But the style is long and slender, revolute in the bud, and ends in a broad peltate stigmatiferous dilatation; and the flower, axillary to a caducous bract, is accompanied, as in the Amherstiece,^ by two pretty thick lateral bractlets of nearly equal size, and which by touching edge to edge form a complete envelope to the flower-bud. They separate at the apex on anthesis to free the flower. The inflorescence consists of ramified racemes towards the end of the branches. T. ferrugineus Tql., the only species of this genus at first known, is an unarmed tree from North Brazil, with alternate paripinnate leaves. Dicymbe corymbosa^ is a small unarmed tree from North Brazil, with alternate pinnate leaves, and large pseudo-corymbose flowers, whose receptacle forms a deep inverted cone, lined with glandular tissue. On its rim are inserted four' or five imbricated sepals, and ' M., Brmma Schott.âPerittiumferrugmemn VoG., loo. cit. ^ Tttl., in As'ch. Mas., iv. 175. ' To which we do not refer the two species of Thylacanthm, because of the central insertion of the gynsBceum. â¢â Spbttce, ex B. H., Gen., 664, 1002, n. 304. âBenth., in Trams. Limn. Soc, xxv. 303, t. 38. ' In this case the apex of the poste
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