. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. other equally good but utterly inexpressible ; The seeds of G. Indica yield cocum oil, used in India as an adulterant for butter, and also as a drug. Another plant of this family producing an edible fruit is the mammey apple (Mammea Americana), the "mamey sapota" of the West Indies. It has a somewhat insipid flavor, but is popalar among the natives (see Fig. 156.) Pentadesma butyraceum is the butter tree of Sierra Leone. Calophyl- lum is another rather large genus noted for the oil Fig. 158. Flowering branch and
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. other equally good but utterly inexpressible ; The seeds of G. Indica yield cocum oil, used in India as an adulterant for butter, and also as a drug. Another plant of this family producing an edible fruit is the mammey apple (Mammea Americana), the "mamey sapota" of the West Indies. It has a somewhat insipid flavor, but is popalar among the natives (see Fig. 156.) Pentadesma butyraceum is the butter tree of Sierra Leone. Calophyl- lum is another rather large genus noted for the oil Fig. 158. Flowering branch and detached fruit of Dip- yielded by itS Seeds, Called /.,â.ar>«.«fe.,«, greatly reduced. Redrawn from Engier. Xeena oil; the timber pro- duced by these trees is also of good quality. Family Hypericaceae. St. John's-wort Family. Contains about 10 genera and 280 species, mostly herbs and shrubs of wide distribution, a few trees in tropical regions; They have opposite or whorled leaves, and solitary or panicled flowers with 4-5 sepals, 4-5 petals, innumerable stamens and an ovary of 1-7 carpels, becoming a capsule in fruit. The St. John's-worts embrace sev- eral of our annoying weeds, as well as some of our most picturesque wild plants. The species of Hypericum shown in the illustration (see Fig. 157) is a native of the Southern States in hilly situations, and has very large golden-yellow flowers, rendering it de- sirable for cultivation. Among our familiar plants belonging to this fam- ily may be mentioned the spotted St. â Tohn's-wort {H. maculatum) the orange grass or pinweed {Sarothra gentian- oides); and the St. Peter's-wort (Ascy- rum hypericoides). The black or pel- lucid dots in the leaves of hypericaceous plants contain an essential Fig. 159. Reaumeria Pgrsica, an entire plant, greatly reduced. Redrawn from Eti- i Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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