. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. ^596 CLXIV. Pentaraphia. Ovary cu
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. ^596 CLXIV. Pentaraphia. Ovary cut Tertically (mag.). Pentaraphia. Seed cut vertically (mag.). Achimenes longiJUyra, Flower. Qo'RoiA^K -perigynous or hypogynous, monopetalous, anisostemonous, irregular, 5-lohed, cestivation imbricate. Stamens usually 4, dddynamous, inserted on the corolla. OvAKT inferior or semi-inferior or free, 1-celled, pla- centation parietal; ovXJh^S anatropous. Embrto aZfewmmows or woi. Usually herbaceous, rarely sub-woody or woody. Leaves usually opposite or wborled, simple, exstipulate. Elowees 5, irregular, in a raceme or spike or cyme, sometimes fascicled; pedMncles often 1- or 2-flowered. Calyx persistent, 5-partite, lobes unequal. Corolla inserted on tbe receptacle, or on a fleshy disk between the ovary and the receptacular cup, monopetalous, tubular, infundibuliform or campanu- late, more or less oblique, usually gibbous at the base; limi lengthened in front, 5-fid, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, aestivation imbricate. Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, usually didynamous, the fifth (posterior) being arrested or absent, sometimes reduced to 2 by arrest of the 2 anterior or 2 lateral ones; anthers very often cohering, 2-celled (or 1-celled either by confluence of the cells or by the arrest of one), terminal, or lateral by the bifurcation of the connective, dehis- cence longitudinal. Ovary 1-celled, free or semi-inferior, rarely inferior, girt or crowned with an annu
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