. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 366. Flower. Fig. 368. Seed. Fig. 369. Longi- tudinal section of seed. Fig. 367. Longitudinal section of flower. Africa, whose flowers are tetramerous, with a disk interior to the stamens, instead of beiug exterior to them, like those of the pre- ceding genera, and whose fruit is formed of two samaras, each dehiscing in two valves and containing a seed prolonged upwards m a long membranous wing placed between the two plates of those of the fruit. In all these genera, the ovule, solitary in each cell, is ascendent, with exterior micropyle. The Dodon
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 366. Flower. Fig. 368. Seed. Fig. 369. Longi- tudinal section of seed. Fig. 367. Longitudinal section of flower. Africa, whose flowers are tetramerous, with a disk interior to the stamens, instead of beiug exterior to them, like those of the pre- ceding genera, and whose fruit is formed of two samaras, each dehiscing in two valves and containing a seed prolonged upwards m a long membranous wing placed between the two plates of those of the fruit. In all these genera, the ovule, solitary in each cell, is ascendent, with exterior micropyle. The Dodonceas have given their name to a small group, not very natural, and which we do not think should be distinguished with the title of tribe or series, but which is easily recognised in practice, by its ovary cells each containing two ovules, usually (though not constantly) obliquely descendent, when the micropyle is exterior and superior. They are both primitively so in the Melicopsidium, a shrub lately discovered in New Caledonia, having the aspect and trifoliate leaves of certain Rutacece^ and regular flowers with five imbricate sepals, five large imbricate petals, with. 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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