. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 249. Flower {\). Fig. 252. Transverse sect, of fruit. Fig. 250. Long, sect, of flower. hitherto been made, but of which we shall make only a section of the genus Alangium. The androeeium is there constantly isostemonous, but the ovary cells are two in number. The consequence is that, in the drupaceous fruit, the putamen is hollowed with two cells. One of them is ordinarily narrow and sterile. The seed contained in the other has constantly albumen externally smooth and flat cotyledons. Thus conceived,* this genus comprises some fifteen species^ inha
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 249. Flower {\). Fig. 252. Transverse sect, of fruit. Fig. 250. Long, sect, of flower. hitherto been made, but of which we shall make only a section of the genus Alangium. The androeeium is there constantly isostemonous, but the ovary cells are two in number. The consequence is that, in the drupaceous fruit, the putamen is hollowed with two cells. One of them is ordinarily narrow and sterile. The seed contained in the other has constantly albumen externally smooth and flat cotyledons. Thus conceived,* this genus comprises some fifteen species^ inhabiting the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania. They are trees ' Adanaonia, v. 195. 2 It is often tlie same in Mhytidandra (A. Geat, Unit. Si. Bxpl. Exp. Sot. i.;303, t. 28 ;— Pseudalangimn F. !Muell. Fragm. ii. 84). 3 EoxB. PI. Coromand. iii. 79, t. 283.—DC. Prodr. iv. 267 (note).—Endl. Gen. u. 6097.— H. Bn. Pat/er Fam. Nat. 341.—B. H. Gen. 949, n. 2.—Stylidium Lour. PI. Coehinch. (ed. 1790), 220 (not S-w.).—Stt/Hs PoiR. Diet. Suppl. t. 260. —Pautsaiwia J. Diet. li. 158. VOL. VI. Alangium sect. 5. 1. Anpolam (Adans.). 2. Biplalangium (H. Bn.). 3. Marleopsis (H. Bn.). 4. Bhytidandra (A. Gbat). 5. Marlea (Eoxs.). " Wight and Akn. 325,—Lindl. JBot. Meg. (1838),t. 61 {Marlea).—Wiawi, 194; III. t. 96.—Done. Jaoquem. Voy. Bot. t. 83 {MarUa).—illi<i. Fl. i. pp. i. 773, 774 18. 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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