. The natural history of plants. Botany. Kg. 383. Fruit. Fig. 384. Long. sect, of fruit. with smooth opposite coriaceous leaves with numerous fine close parallel penniform secondary nervures, and flowers in clusters of terminal or axillary and more or less ramified cymes. They inhabit all the tropical regions of America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. V. QUIINA SEEIES. The flowers of Qidina^ (fig. 385) are polygamous, with a small convex receptacle bearing at first four decussate or five imbricate sepals. The petals, alternate and equal in number, or rising to seven or eight, are free or slightly
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Kg. 383. Fruit. Fig. 384. Long. sect, of fruit. with smooth opposite coriaceous leaves with numerous fine close parallel penniform secondary nervures, and flowers in clusters of terminal or axillary and more or less ramified cymes. They inhabit all the tropical regions of America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. V. QUIINA SEEIES. The flowers of Qidina^ (fig. 385) are polygamous, with a small convex receptacle bearing at first four decussate or five imbricate sepals. The petals, alternate and equal in number, or rising to seven or eight, are free or slightly united at the base and imbricate in the bud. The stamens are numerous in the male flowers, where they consist of a slender filament and a short subglobose anther of two * cells dehiscing internally or near the margin by longitudinal ' On these eharacters are founded the sections admitted in this genus particularly by Thwaites. ' EuMPH. Serb. Amboin. ii. t. 71, 72 {Bintan- ^or).âjAca. Amer. t. 165.âA. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. 320, t. 57.âWight and Ahn. Prodr. i. 102.âWight, Sook. Bot. Misc. Suppl. t. 17; Icon. t. 106-108, 110, 111.âThw. Emm. PL Zetjl. 51, 407.âGrMSEB. FL Brit. 10^.- MiQ. FL i. p. ii. 509; Suppl. 193,497. âHook. p. FL Brit. hid. i. 271.âBente. Fl. Austral, i. 183.âWaip. Rep. i. 396; ii. 811; Ann. i. 129; ii. 191; iv. 366; vii. 356. ' AuBL. Oman. Suppl. 19, t. 379.âPoiR. Diet. vi. 34 {Quiiia).âTuL. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xi. 156.âB. H. Gen. 176, 981, n. 24.âPl'. et Tbi. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xv. 309.âGuiina Ckueg. Li-nvtsa^ XX. 115. â * Sometimes only 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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