. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 261. Flower. Fig. 263. Petal witli the two stamens it envelops. Fig. 262. Long, sect, of flower (f). valvate calyx and petals sloping to the summit and bordered, especially in their upper portion, with long stipitate glands. The stamens, in appearance, are superposed in pairs to each petal which receives them in its cavity, and the inferior ovary contains three incomplete and biovulate cells. The flowers, not numerous, are grouped in contracted cymes as a whole resembling a capitule, and are geminate in a small involucre at the summit of a short an
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 261. Flower. Fig. 263. Petal witli the two stamens it envelops. Fig. 262. Long, sect, of flower (f). valvate calyx and petals sloping to the summit and bordered, especially in their upper portion, with long stipitate glands. The stamens, in appearance, are superposed in pairs to each petal which receives them in its cavity, and the inferior ovary contains three incomplete and biovulate cells. The flowers, not numerous, are grouped in contracted cymes as a whole resembling a capitule, and are geminate in a small involucre at the summit of a short and thick pedicel. Bruguiera (fig. 261-263) was also formerly included in 1 White, coriaceous. Benth. Fl. Austral ii. 493.—Miq. Fl. 2 "WiGHTand AuN. Pro*-, i. 310.—AitN. ^MK. i. p. i. 585; Suppl. 125, 323. -Seem. Fl. fit- 361.—Wight, 238.—Hakv. 91.—Griseb. i^";. .B)ii. 274.—W alp. and SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 613.—Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. Rep. ii. 70; Ann. iv. 675. ii. 407.—TuL. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 108.—. 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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