. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 402. Seed (|). Fig. 403. Longitudinal section of seed. embryo with large elliptical cotyledons (fig. 402, 403). The Mago- nias are beautiful Brazilian "trees with alternate compound-pumate leaves and polygamous flowers. V ? ^SCULUS SEEIES. yEscultis,^ or horse chesnut (fig. 404-408), has hermaphrodite or polygamous and irregular flowers. The calyx is campanulate or tubular, quinquefidal, with five nearly equal or unequal lobes, im- bricate in the prsefloration. The petals, five, or, more often, only four in number, are unequal,^ destitute of a
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 402. Seed (|). Fig. 403. Longitudinal section of seed. embryo with large elliptical cotyledons (fig. 402, 403). The Mago- nias are beautiful Brazilian "trees with alternate compound-pumate leaves and polygamous flowers. V ? ^SCULUS SEEIES. yEscultis,^ or horse chesnut (fig. 404-408), has hermaphrodite or polygamous and irregular flowers. The calyx is campanulate or tubular, quinquefidal, with five nearly equal or unequal lobes, im- bricate in the prsefloration. The petals, five, or, more often, only four in number, are unequal,^ destitute of appendage, and each supported by a narrow claw, flattened or with involute edges. They are also imbricate in the bud. The stamens are rarely five in number and alternipetalous. More often there is also a verticel formed of oppositi-petalous pieces, one, two, or three in number.' The filaments are free, inserted inside a circular or incomplete disk, 1 L. Gen. n. 462.—J. Gen. 251.—Lamk. III. t. 273.—De8R. Diet. iii. 712; Suppl. iii. 593.— DC. Frodr. i. 597.—Spaoh. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, ii. 52; Suit. & Buffon, iii. 18.—Endl. Gen. n. 5641.—Sohnizl. Iconogr. t. 230.—A. Gray, Gen. HI. t. 176, 177.—Pay^k, Organog. 128, t. 28.—B. H. Gen. 398, n. 21 (part.)— H. Bn, Payer, Fam. Nat. 318.—Lem. et Done. Tr, Gen. 325.—Sippocastanum T. Inst. 611, t. 382.—GJ3RTN. IHct. ii. 135, t. Ill (inol. -. Calothyrms Spach, Maerothyrsm Spach, Pavia BOERH.). - And usually of different colour, the two upper being often stained inwardly and at the tase with yellow or red. 3 On the situation of these oppositipetalous ~ stamens, see Payer, loc. cit. 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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