. The natural history of plants. Botany. LUGUMmOBMCMBALPINIE^. 143 longitudinal dehiscence, whose connective is often surmounted by a mossy glandular point. The gynseceum is inserted by a long slender foot in the bottom of the receptacle. Its ovary' contains an inde- finite number of ovules, and is surmounted by a short style, with an undilated stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is an oblong flattened coriaceous or woody bivalve pod. The seeds, surrounded by a variable thickness of pulp, contain within their coats^ a fleshy Brandzeia Pia. 135. Habit (i). embryo surrounded by thick, f
. The natural history of plants. Botany. LUGUMmOBMCMBALPINIE^. 143 longitudinal dehiscence, whose connective is often surmounted by a mossy glandular point. The gynseceum is inserted by a long slender foot in the bottom of the receptacle. Its ovary' contains an inde- finite number of ovules, and is surmounted by a short style, with an undilated stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is an oblong flattened coriaceous or woody bivalve pod. The seeds, surrounded by a variable thickness of pulp, contain within their coats^ a fleshy Brandzeia Pia. 135. Habit (i). embryo surrounded by thick, fleshy or subcorneous albumen. This genus consists of unarmed trees from tropical Africa' and ' Often covered with very long woolly hairs becomes much thicker in contact with water (see (figs. 133, 134). Adansonia, vi. 204), ^ The middle coat is very hard; it is sur- ' The old species, named Mll<Ba suaveolens rounded by a soft layer, which swells up and by the authors of the Floras Senegamhice Tenia-. 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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