. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 457. Floriferous brancli. Fig. 460. Fruit. Fig. 461. Long. sect, of fruit. stigmatiferous papillose or plumose. In the internal angle of each ovarian cell is a descending anatropous ovule, with micropyle interior and superior. It not unfrequently happens that the interl ocular partitions disappear more or less completely, and the ovary, conse- quently, appears reduced to a single quadriovulate cell. The fruit, pyramidal, angular or winged, is a drupe, the thin mesocarp of which finally becomes quite dry. The putamen contains, in each cell, a descen
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 457. Floriferous brancli. Fig. 460. Fruit. Fig. 461. Long. sect, of fruit. stigmatiferous papillose or plumose. In the internal angle of each ovarian cell is a descending anatropous ovule, with micropyle interior and superior. It not unfrequently happens that the interl ocular partitions disappear more or less completely, and the ovary, conse- quently, appears reduced to a single quadriovulate cell. The fruit, pyramidal, angular or winged, is a drupe, the thin mesocarp of which finally becomes quite dry. The putamen contains, in each cell, a descending seed, the coats of which enclose a fleshy albumen and an axile embryo, with superior radicle and very small cotyledons. Haloragis consists of herbaceous or subshrubby plants, of which some forty species^ are known, natives of Asia, Oceania, and the • Labill. t. 63 {Gonjocarpua), 128, 129.—jACa. Ic. Sar. i. t. 69.—Ad. Br. Duperr. Voy. Sot. t. 68-70.—A. Eich. Fl. 324. —Hook. f. Fl. Taiman. i. t. 22 ; Man. Fl. 64.—Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 473.—I'. Mtjeil. Fragm. Phyt. Amtral. viii. 162.—Hook. Icon. t. 290, 311 {G-iinioearpus).-—Franch. etSAv. Fnu/m, PI. Jap. 164.—WALP. Rep. ii. 99 ; v. 672 ; 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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