. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 89. Bud. Fig. 90. Flower without corolla. Fig. 91, 92. long. sect, of gynseceum and gynseceum. Fig. 93-95. Stamen face, back and long, section. tion Humirium (fig. 90). In another section bearing the name Vantanea"^ (fig. 96, 97) the stamens are all fertile and still more numerous, for from twenty to thirty have been counted, and even as many as fifty or sixty. The gyneeeeum is free and superior, formed of an ovary with five alternipetalous cells,^ surrounded at the base by a disk which is thick, circular, almost entire, or more or less thin,
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 89. Bud. Fig. 90. Flower without corolla. Fig. 91, 92. long. sect, of gynseceum and gynseceum. Fig. 93-95. Stamen face, back and long, section. tion Humirium (fig. 90). In another section bearing the name Vantanea"^ (fig. 96, 97) the stamens are all fertile and still more numerous, for from twenty to thirty have been counted, and even as many as fifty or sixty. The gyneeeeum is free and superior, formed of an ovary with five alternipetalous cells,^ surrounded at the base by a disk which is thick, circular, almost entire, or more or less thin, membraneous, unequally cut upon the edges, or deeply divided into ten or fifteen pointed tongues. The style is simple, cylindrical, erect, swollen at apex into a small stigmatiferous head almost entire or slightly lobed. In the inner angle of each cell is seen a placenta supporting two descendent ovules, with micropyle directed outwards and upwards, and collateral, or nearly superposed by the elongation of the funicle of one of them: the other may abort more or less gnlar upon the equator; the papUlsB pretty large upon the bands of the angles. 1 Mart. Nov. Qen. et Spec. ii. 146.—Endi. Qen. n. 5485.—H. Bn. in Adanaonia, i. 208; x. 368.—B. H. Gen. 247, n. 3. 2 AuBi. Chiim. 672, t. 229.—J. Gen. 434.— Endl. Gen. u. 5383.—B. H. Gen. 246, n. 1.—H. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 368.—Lemniscia Soheeb. Gen. 358.—SelUria Nees etMART. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 38, t. 7—Endl. Gen. u. 5487.—H. Bn. in Adansonia. i, 209. ' They are sometimes incomplete ; sometimes they are more than five in 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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