. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 462. Flower (|). Fig. 464. Gynasoium. Fig. 463. Long. sect, of flower. that is with two sepals, two petals, two verticils of two stamens,,and an ovary with two uniovulate cells. M. Brownii, the only species known,* herbaceous and glabrous, grows in South Australia and Tasmania. Loudonia^ (flg. 462-464), native of the same countries, has dimerous or tetramerous and 4-8-androus flowers, and the 4- winged ovary has two or four cells, the separating partition of which disappears more or less completely at a certain age and is represented i. 293 ; ii. 5
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 462. Flower (|). Fig. 464. Gynasoium. Fig. 463. Long. sect, of flower. that is with two sepals, two petals, two verticils of two stamens,,and an ovary with two uniovulate cells. M. Brownii, the only species known,* herbaceous and glabrous, grows in South Australia and Tasmania. Loudonia^ (flg. 462-464), native of the same countries, has dimerous or tetramerous and 4-8-androus flowers, and the 4- winged ovary has two or four cells, the separating partition of which disappears more or less completely at a certain age and is represented i. 293 ; ii. 537, 538 (Goniocarpus) ; iv. 883; vii. 940. ' Small, yellow, greenish or reddish. 2 B,. Br. Flind. Toy. App. ii. 550.âEndl. Gen. 1197.âB. H. 6en. 675, n. 3.âH. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 34. ' We have shown that this character does not permit its being made other than a sectioQ of the genus Saloragia. â * M. Brownii Hook. r. Soolc. Icon. t. 306; Fl. Tasm. i. 123.âBenth. Fl. 486.âM. Preissii Nees, Fl. Freiss. i. 224.âKaloragis Meioneciea R. Br. " LiNDL. Sw. Riv. App. 42, c. ic.; Veg. Kivg. (1846) 722, fig. 382.âEnm. Gen. n. 6139.âB. H. Gen. 674, n. I.âH. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 377 ; Adansonia, xii. Zi.âGlisehroearyon Endl. Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 209; N. st. Mus. Yindob. Dec. n. 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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