. The natural history of plants. Botany. 406 NAT ORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. lobes (fig. 372-374). The two lateral cells and the corresponding stylary branches may be wanting. In the internal angle of each cell is an axile placenta supporting a single ascending incompletely anatropons ovule, with micropyle inferior and exterior. The fruit is a berry. The seeds, surrounded by a fleshy pulp,^ enclose under their coats a large fleshy and undivided embryo. In the true Oarcinia "â the flowers are generally tetramerous (fig. 354, 376-378). The sepals are imbricate-decussate and the two exterior are
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 406 NAT ORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. lobes (fig. 372-374). The two lateral cells and the corresponding stylary branches may be wanting. In the internal angle of each cell is an axile placenta supporting a single ascending incompletely anatropons ovule, with micropyle inferior and exterior. The fruit is a berry. The seeds, surrounded by a fleshy pulp,^ enclose under their coats a large fleshy and undivided embryo. In the true Oarcinia "â the flowers are generally tetramerous (fig. 354, 376-378). The sepals are imbricate-decussate and the two exterior are not unfrequently' much smaller than the others. The stamens are generally arranged like those of Xanthochymus, either free or united in five fascicles or sometimes more, with anthers Gurcinia Fii'.-. 376. Female flower. Iion";. sect, of female flower. fertile only in the male or hermaphrodite flowers. The organization and mode of dehiscence of these anthers are very variable. In Q. Mangostana and analogous species,"' they are bilocular. In the â species of the Cambogia series, they have two cells or four cellules, equally dehiscing by clefts. In 0. Morella^ (fig. 354, 378), they are peltate and open by a sort of small lid like a pyxis. ^ The gynsecium is composed of a very variable number of carpels (from two to a dozen). The ovary encloses, in the internal angle of each '', Seminal coats transformed. 2 L. Geii. 11. 594.âJ. G^n. "156.âDeshx. Zamlc. Diet. iii. 699 ; Suppl. iii. 584 ; III. t 403. âDC. Pi-odr. i. 560.âCambess. Mem. Mus. xvi. 425.â Spach, Suit, a Buffon, r. 322.âEndl. Gen. n. 6443.âPl. et Tbi. Avii. Se. Nat. ser. 4, xiy. 324.âB. H. Geii. 174, 980, n. 16.âH. I'ayer Fani. Kat. 271.âTjAnfss. Adansonia, x. 2.'^3, t. 11.âCtimiogia L. Gen. n. ti50.^ Manffo- stana Gy"ERTX. Fi-uct. ii. 105, t. 105.âOxycarpiis Lot-R. F(. Cochinch. (ed. 1790) &i1 .âBrindonia Dl' Diet. Sc. Nat, t. 339.âEhinostigma ' In
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