. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 133. Mower (^).. Fig. 132. Floriferous branch (i). Fig. 134. Long. sect, of flower. flowers^ are disposed in ramified terminal racemes, composed of cymes, sometimes uniparous at the apex. Vochysia (fig. 127-131), consisting of trees from tropical America, has all the characters of Salvertia, but the sepals are very unequal and the petals are, as we have seen, three in number, the two posterior disappearing; or sometimes even the anterior petal alone represents the corolla. The Vochysias are trees with opposite or verticillate leaves, accompanied by
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 133. Mower (^).. Fig. 132. Floriferous branch (i). Fig. 134. Long. sect, of flower. flowers^ are disposed in ramified terminal racemes, composed of cymes, sometimes uniparous at the apex. Vochysia (fig. 127-131), consisting of trees from tropical America, has all the characters of Salvertia, but the sepals are very unequal and the petals are, as we have seen, three in number, the two posterior disappearing; or sometimes even the anterior petal alone represents the corolla. The Vochysias are trees with opposite or verticillate leaves, accompanied by small lateral stipules. The inflorescence is in racemes of cymes more or less ramified. Beside them are placed CalUsthene and Qualea, also natives of 1 S. convallariaodora A. S. H. loe. cit.— Mart, et Zucc. Kov. Gen. et Spec, i, 152, t. 93. — ? S. fhyrsifiora Pohl, PI. Bras. ii. 15, t. 110. «p., i, 69. 2 Thick, coriaceous, ohoval, entire, penin- nerved, exstipulate (f). ' White or pink, large, heautiful, very- 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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