. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 82 MORPHOLOGY where there is only one whorl. Flowers with both the essential whorls are said to be monoclinous or HERMAPHRODITE, Or bisexual, or perfect; flowers with only one essential whorl diclinous, unisexual, or imperfect. Diclinous flowers are either male, that is, staminate, or female, that is, pistillate. When the flowers on a plant are all unisexual, but some of them staminate and some pistillate, they are said to. Fig. 77.—Panpe {Carica Papaya) f, Female flower 5. tt Seen from top. h, Seen from bottom. fr, Section of fruit. , Stigma. be MONCECious
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. 82 MORPHOLOGY where there is only one whorl. Flowers with both the essential whorls are said to be monoclinous or HERMAPHRODITE, Or bisexual, or perfect; flowers with only one essential whorl diclinous, unisexual, or imperfect. Diclinous flowers are either male, that is, staminate, or female, that is, pistillate. When the flowers on a plant are all unisexual, but some of them staminate and some pistillate, they are said to. Fig. 77.—Panpe {Carica Papaya) f, Female flower 5. tt Seen from top. h, Seen from bottom. fr, Section of fruit. , Stigma. be MONCECious; and when the staminate and ptsitiH- late flowers are on separate plants of the same species, they are said to be dicecious; when the flowers on the same plant are some bisexual and some, unisexual, they are said to be polygamous. The flowers that have hitherto been mentioned are almost all hermaphrodite and dichlamydeous. The flowers of shasha or Cucumber, belati-kumrha or Gourd, tarmuz or Water-melon, lal-bharenda {Jatro- pha gossypifolia), bag-bharenda {Jatropha Curcas), Castor-oil (rerhi) plant (see fig. 233), are diclinous and monoecious; the flowers of panpe or Papaw (figs. 77, 78), pituli (see figs. 236, 237), pan or Betel-leaf. 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 Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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