. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 190. Inflorescence seen from tte side of the female flower. Fig. 191. Inflorescence seen from the side of the miile flower. Dalechampia Cremophyllum) spathulata. being also in one piece, but more elongated in a club or column, with stigmatiferous lobes little developed, corresponding to the ovary cells or to the interposed par- titions (fig. 194, 195). The recep- tacle, bearing an indefinite number of stamens, becomes a column longer and thinner. The flowers of both sexes are collected in a con- tracted mass, surrounded by two bracts, often coloure


. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 190. Inflorescence seen from tte side of the female flower. Fig. 191. Inflorescence seen from the side of the miile flower. Dalechampia Cremophyllum) spathulata. being also in one piece, but more elongated in a club or column, with stigmatiferous lobes little developed, corresponding to the ovary cells or to the interposed par- titions (fig. 194, 195). The recep- tacle, bearing an indefinite number of stamens, becomes a column longer and thinner. The flowers of both sexes are collected in a con- tracted mass, surrounded by two bracts, often coloured, forming a general involucre to the inflores- cence. There is also a special in- volucel for the male flowers united in a capituliform cyme, and for the female, forming without and below the males, a small three-flowered cyme. Species of Dalechampia have been found in all hot Fig. 192. Long. sect, of 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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