. The natural history of plants. Botany. Via. 39. Flower. Pia. 40. Diagram. FW. 41. Longitndinal section of flower. Cadia va/na. articulated at the base and tapering at the apex, and an introrse two-celled, anther of longitudinal dehiscence. The free central ovary is that of a Leguminose. Its ovary, supported on a slender foot, contains an indefinite number of ovules in two vertical rows on a placenta superposed to the anterior petal; they are anafcropous and descending or horizontal, with the micropyle looking upwards and outwards (fig. 41).^ The style is short and bowed, and its apex curving
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Via. 39. Flower. Pia. 40. Diagram. FW. 41. Longitndinal section of flower. Cadia va/na. articulated at the base and tapering at the apex, and an introrse two-celled, anther of longitudinal dehiscence. The free central ovary is that of a Leguminose. Its ovary, supported on a slender foot, contains an indefinite number of ovules in two vertical rows on a placenta superposed to the anterior petal; they are anafcropous and descending or horizontal, with the micropyle looking upwards and outwards (fig. 41).^ The style is short and bowed, and its apex curving towards the placenta dilates into a very little papillose stigraatiferous head. The fruit is a pod, supported on a slender foot, whose base is surrounded by the persistent calyx and receptacle (fig. 42). It is slender elongated coriaceous and glabrous, enclosing a variable number of seeds (figs. 43, 44), which contain within their coats a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, with an inflexed radicle accumbent on the two lateral cotyledons. Cadia consists of shrubs from the coast and islands of tropical Africa, with alternate imparipinnate leaves possessing two lateral stipules. The flowers are in ^qm- or one-flowered racemes,' terminating. Pia. 42. Fruit (f). • These five stamens are at first shorter than the rest, and are originally inserted outside of them. 2 These ovules have two coats, and are at first arranged in two parallel rows. Their final direction is often such that the raphe is inferior and quite horizontal. ^ In C. varia, there are few flowers on each axis; or there is a single flower terminating a little axillary branch, which bears one or few bracts below 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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