. The natural history of plants. Botany. MHZ A STOMA CE^. 18 its margin are inserted five or six short sepals, five or six petals longer and contorted, and ten to twelve stamens nearly equal, the filaments, much incurved, bearing anthers at first reversed and generally provided with a short and thick basilar prominence. The fruit is a berry and the flowers are disposed in terminal rami- Maieta {Caiophysa) pihsa. fled groups, clothed with cymes. In Maieta (fig. 27), the fiowers are axillary and disposed in few- flowered glomerules, each ac- companied by four bracteoles; and the ovary is totally
. The natural history of plants. Botany. MHZ A STOMA CE^. 18 its margin are inserted five or six short sepals, five or six petals longer and contorted, and ten to twelve stamens nearly equal, the filaments, much incurved, bearing anthers at first reversed and generally provided with a short and thick basilar prominence. The fruit is a berry and the flowers are disposed in terminal rami- Maieta {Caiophysa) pihsa. fled groups, clothed with cymes. In Maieta (fig. 27), the fiowers are axillary and disposed in few- flowered glomerules, each ac- companied by four bracteoles; and the ovary is totally adherent. The fruit is coriaceous. But we cannot resist restoring to this genus Microphysca, having the same flower, furnished with fine narrow dentelate vyings; Myrmi- done, -with, leaves equally fur- nished with a basilar vesicle, and the ovary adherent to a receptacle bearing above five elongate tongues, alternating with the sepals; Myriaspora, with an opercuhform calyx, sepals somewhat pointed, and an ovary equally adherent,' containing 6-10 cells. In Calophysa, like the preceding types, native of tropical America, the flower, 3-4-merous, is otherwise that of Maieta, and the leaves are also often vesicuhferous at the base; but the inflorescence is sometimes axillary and some- times terminal, like that of Tococa; the sepals are long branched and setiferous. Clidemia, another section of the same genus, has the terminal or axillary inflorescence of Calophysa, with 6-merous flowers and leaves not vesicuhferous at the base. Sagrcea is inseparable from Clidemia; it has the same organs of vegetation and the same flower; only it is tetramerous and externally bristling with hairs. The inflorescence, terminal or axillary, is in cymes or glomerules, sometimes capituliform and surrounded by an involucre of Fig. 27. Long. sect, of bud (f). ' It has 'bi&'a considered free only because it has been artificially separated from the coat of the receptacle, as Bkongniart did with
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