. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 273. Inflorescence (f), Fl&. 274. Long, section of male flower (A). Fl9. 275. Male flower (perianth removed). The flowers of this genus are monojcious, some being female and pen- tamerous, others male and tetramerous, in the New Caledonian species H. Vieillardi.^ In other instances the male flower is trimerous, and ' Sometimes grooved on the convex side by one or more irregular furrows. " Span., in Linmcea, xv. 187.—MiQ., M. Bat., i. 1094 ; Suppl, i. 333, t. 1 ; in Mus. , ii. 213. ' Plttm., Gen., 6, t. 40.—L., Oen., 374, n.
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 273. Inflorescence (f), Fl&. 274. Long, section of male flower (A). Fl9. 275. Male flower (perianth removed). The flowers of this genus are monojcious, some being female and pen- tamerous, others male and tetramerous, in the New Caledonian species H. Vieillardi.^ In other instances the male flower is trimerous, and ' Sometimes grooved on the convex side by one or more irregular furrows. " Span., in Linmcea, xv. 187.—MiQ., M. Bat., i. 1094 ; Suppl, i. 333, t. 1 ; in Mus. , ii. 213. ' Plttm., Gen., 6, t. 40.—L., Oen., 374, n. 925.—J., Gen., 81.—G^ietn., Fruet., i. 139, t. 40.—Lamk., Diet., iii. 122; Suppl., iii. 146; III., t. 755.—Enm., Gen., n. 2108.—Meissn., Proi/r., 263.—H. Bn., in Adansowia, v. 188.— ffemandiopsis Meissn., Prodr., 264. * See Adaasonia, he. cit., 190. * Hemcmdiopsis Vieillardi JVlElssir., loe. cit. —Semandia cordigera Vieiil., in Ann. Sc. Nat., air. 4, xvi. 62. This species, it appears to us, should nob be separated from the rest of the genus Semandia on account of the type of its flowers, because they have in other respects just the same organization. Here and there we do find trimerous males and hermaphrodite females; and the former numbers may be found in true 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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