. The natural history of plants. Botany. 280 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Anisomallon T?ig. 329. Longitudinal section of fruit (f). and for th,e same reasdn, tliere is a difference of growth, in their different portions. The sear of the style approaches therefore more or less to the base of the fruit, which, in Apod^tes, may present on each side a small fleshy thickening. In the Anisomallon, iohabiting New Caledonia, this swelling becomes considerable, as voluminous as the fruit itself, a drupe with flesh of little thickness, accompanied on the side of the recurved micropyle by
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 280 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Anisomallon T?ig. 329. Longitudinal section of fruit (f). and for th,e same reasdn, tliere is a difference of growth, in their different portions. The sear of the style approaches therefore more or less to the base of the fruit, which, in Apod^tes, may present on each side a small fleshy thickening. In the Anisomallon, iohabiting New Caledonia, this swelling becomes considerable, as voluminous as the fruit itself, a drupe with flesh of little thickness, accompanied on the side of the recurved micropyle by this bacciform mass (fig. 329). The calyx is that of Lasianthera. In Anisomallon the petals present within the internal face a project- ing appendage perpendicular to surface, dividing the conca- vity into two elongated in each of which is sheltered an anther cell. Those of Apodytes are glabrous and naked. This last gentis inhabits the warm regions of Asia and Africa. In Pennantia, forming by itself a small secondary group, the general organisation of the polygamous-dioecious flowers is the same as in the preceding genera, but the calyx disappears almost com- pletely, and is only represented by a small and but slightly projecting ring, the staminal filaments are folded twice upon themselves at the back of the anther, above their point of attachment, and the ovary is uniovulate. The Pennantias are Oceanian. Leptaulus, consisting of shrubs from tropical "Western Africa and Madagascar, is distinguished from all the preceding types by the gamopetalous corolla, tubular and sometimes very long, towards whose throat the stamens are attached. The flowers are arranged ia cymes contracted and drawn up until beside a leaf much higher than that to the axil of which they in reality answer. The embryo is always, like those of the above genera, apiculate and very small, but the fleshy albumen is multilobate. At the same time the imbricate gamosepalous calyx is divided much
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