. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 9. Flower. with two interior basilar horns, more or less developed according as the stamen is alternipetalous or oppositipetalous ; Fleroma, hairy- shrubs or herbs from the Antilles and tropical America, whose penta- merous flowers are similar to those of Fritzschia, with very variable habit and inflorescence, the latter some- times subcapitate; Diplostegium, having the flower oiPleroma with bracts forming under the flower a double calycular appendage ; Hephestionia, inhabiting arid mountains, shrubby, rigid, covered with scaly hairs, the flower al
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 9. Flower. with two interior basilar horns, more or less developed according as the stamen is alternipetalous or oppositipetalous ; Fleroma, hairy- shrubs or herbs from the Antilles and tropical America, whose penta- merous flowers are similar to those of Fritzschia, with very variable habit and inflorescence, the latter some- times subcapitate; Diplostegium, having the flower oiPleroma with bracts forming under the flower a double calycular appendage ; Hephestionia, inhabiting arid mountains, shrubby, rigid, covered with scaly hairs, the flower always that of Pleroma; Purpurella, frute^cent, hispid, and having all the floral cha- racters of Pleroma, with anthers de- hiscing by large pores (as in certain true Acisantheras); Macairea, shrubs from Brazil and Guyana, equally hairy, with -tetramerous flowers, collected in terminal and ramified .clusters of cymes; Pterolepis, her- baceous and frutescent plants, with receptacle and sepals covered with branched hairs ; lowers sometimes subcapitate (in other respects very analogous to those' of the old-world Osbechias); Ernestia, herbs from Peru, Co- lumbia and Brazil, with rather large glandular leaves; flowers of Acisanthera, arranged in terminal di- or trichotomous cymes, with the appendages of the connec- tive rather longer and more slender; Ap- pendicularia, of Guyana, having the stamens of Ernestia, with spikelike inflorescence; Dichmtandra, which is Ernestia with 4-6- merous flowers, but a glabrous ovary; Nep- sera, inhabiting the shores of the Antilles, Brazil, Columbia and Guyana, and having, with the foliage and inflorescence of Ernestia, 4-merous flowers, a 3-celled ovary and a connective with double subulate and shorter appendage; finally Arthrostemma, from the Antilles and South America, slender herbs, with the leaves of Nepsera or Ernestia, but serrulate ; flowers grouped in looser cymes, 4-merous, with unequal anthers, furnished with a double horn analogous to tha
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