. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Mpp#=^ip^ \^r'^s^^ \£^ KiG. 182. — I. Longitudinal section through the hypanthodium of a Fig, ex- posing the flowers in its interior ; 11. a piece greatly magnified, with five female flowers ; -t, pistil ; b^ perianth. (FYom Thome and Bennett's " Structural and Physiological Botany ".) seeds borne at the centre ; higher up a cross section will show- five or more chambers whore the seeds are borne in the outer edge. When the fruit ripens the bright red tubular axis takes part in its formation. B. Fruits Formed from a Collection
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Mpp#=^ip^ \^r'^s^^ \£^ KiG. 182. — I. Longitudinal section through the hypanthodium of a Fig, ex- posing the flowers in its interior ; 11. a piece greatly magnified, with five female flowers ; -t, pistil ; b^ perianth. (FYom Thome and Bennett's " Structural and Physiological Botany ".) seeds borne at the centre ; higher up a cross section will show- five or more chambers whore the seeds are borne in the outer edge. When the fruit ripens the bright red tubular axis takes part in its formation. B. Fruits Formed from a Collection of Flowers.—All fruits thus far described have grown from the centre of a single flower. In ihe fig the hollowed receptacle bears within its cavity a great number of flowers. In some figs the flowers bear only ovaries; in others the staminate flowers are borne. It is the work of one very small insect to convey the pollen from one kind of Fig to the stigmas in the other. In many species, all or most of the ovulate flowers below ihe staminate ones are transformed into gall flowers. This is the case for instance in Fiais iarica which has three kinds of flowers —staminate flowers and those with short and with long 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 Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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