. The natural history of plants. Botany. aAPINDAGE^. 343 the gynseceum^ three carpels are inserted obliquely, free on their interior edge and each formed by an unilocular orary tapering into an apioulate style whose slightly dilated stigmatiferous apex often adheres to the stigmas of the two. other carpels. In the internal angle of each orary is seen a placenta supporting four- ovules, arranged in two vertical ascendent series, with the micropyle turned Triceros japonica}. Fig. 337. Longitudinal section of fruit. Fig. 336. Longitudinal section of flower (4). Fig. 338. Longitudinal section of s
. The natural history of plants. Botany. aAPINDAGE^. 343 the gynseceum^ three carpels are inserted obliquely, free on their interior edge and each formed by an unilocular orary tapering into an apioulate style whose slightly dilated stigmatiferous apex often adheres to the stigmas of the two. other carpels. In the internal angle of each orary is seen a placenta supporting four- ovules, arranged in two vertical ascendent series, with the micropyle turned Triceros japonica}. Fig. 337. Longitudinal section of fruit. Fig. 336. Longitudinal section of flower (4). Fig. 338. Longitudinal section of seed (^). downwards and outwards. There are flowers whose gynseceum is formed of only two carpels. The fruit (fig. 337) is, accordingly, composed of two or three independent, foUiculiform, divergent, coria- ceous carpels, each opening slowly inwardly to set at liberty from one to four seeds. These (fig. 338) present beneath their double coat, the exterior of which is fleshy and the interior crustaceous, a fleshy albumen surrounding an embryo with inferior radicle and large orbicular flattened cotyledons. In certain species of the same genus, indicated under the name of Turpinia,^ the carpels are inde- pendent only in the upper portion and not towards the base. The peri- carp, generally indehiscent, is more or less thick, coriaceous or even fleshy. In all the Triceros, however, the number of ovules is varia- ble in each series,, reduced even sometimes to one. There are ten species ^ of this genus, arborescent or frutescent, growing in tem- \ Sambucus japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. 126.— —^Ailcmtus Japonica herb! —Staphylea heter- ophylla E(EM. & Sch.—Emcaphis staphyleoides S:eb. Zucc. loo. cit.—Mia. Mus. m. 92. ^ Vent. Choix de PI. t. 31.—DC. Prodr. ii. 3. —Tdep. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 273.—Endl. Gen. n. 6671.—B. H. Gen. 413, 1000, n. IZ.—Dal- hea EoxE. PI. Coromand. iii. 75, t. 279.— Lacepedea H. B. K. Non. Gen. et 142, t. 444.— Endl
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