. The natural history of plants. Botany. 346 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. gltudinal placenta supporting two collateral or nearly superposed ovules, more or less ascendent, anatropous, with the raphe turned inwards, and the micropyle downwards and outwards. The fruit is formed of one, two, or three gibbous drupes with a stone more or less rugose and reticulate outwardly, and covered by a sarcocarp of vari- able thickness. In each stone is found two or, more often, one as- cendent, reniform seed, with albumen of little thickness or reduced to a simple membrane, enveloping a curved embryo, having l
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 346 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. gltudinal placenta supporting two collateral or nearly superposed ovules, more or less ascendent, anatropous, with the raphe turned inwards, and the micropyle downwards and outwards. The fruit is formed of one, two, or three gibbous drupes with a stone more or less rugose and reticulate outwardly, and covered by a sarcocarp of vari- able thickness. In each stone is found two or, more often, one as- cendent, reniform seed, with albumen of little thickness or reduced to a simple membrane, enveloping a curved embryo, having lateral cotyledons, rugose or waved, with inferior and incurved radicle. The Sabias are sarmentous and climbing shrubs, natives of warm and temperate Eastern Asia. The branches bear shoots with imbricate persistent scales, first appendages of the foliate branches. The leaves are alternate, entire, penninerved. The flowers,^ usually opening early, are arranged in axillary clusters, pedunculate, simple, or ramified, sometimes even corymbiform or simulating cymes. Ten species have been described.^ Meliosma * (fig. 344-350) is allied to SaMa, although immediately distinguished by the union of the carpels in an ovary with two or Meliosma 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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