. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 466. Flower (|).. Fig. 470. Open fruit. Fig. 469. Flower, without the corolla and androceam. Fig. 468. Flower, with corolla removed. divisions, five alternate imbricate petals, and ten monadelphous stamens, superposed, five to the divisions of the calyx, and five to the petals. All are united below in a tube for a variable extent of the filaments, then free and surmounted by a bilocular introrse anther, dehiscent by two longitudinal clefts,^ often accompanied outside by an equal number of alternate, simple or bifid, prolongations of the summit of t
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 466. Flower (|).. Fig. 470. Open fruit. Fig. 469. Flower, without the corolla and androceam. Fig. 468. Flower, with corolla removed. divisions, five alternate imbricate petals, and ten monadelphous stamens, superposed, five to the divisions of the calyx, and five to the petals. All are united below in a tube for a variable extent of the filaments, then free and surmounted by a bilocular introrse anther, dehiscent by two longitudinal clefts,^ often accompanied outside by an equal number of alternate, simple or bifid, prolongations of the summit of the tube. The gynseceum is free, with an ovary having two or three biovulate cells, surmounted by a style with stigmati- ferous apex dilated to a head or disk, divided into two or three more or less distinct lobes. The ovules are descendent, anatropal, the micropyle directed upwards and outwards, sometimes collateral, 1 L. Gen. 528.—Adans. Fam. des Tl. ii. 343. —J. Gen. 265.—PoiB. Diet. viii. 56; Siippl. v. 339.—DC. Prodr. i. 622 (part.).—A. Juss. Melitc. 83, t. 7.—Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 194. —Endl. Gen. n. 6641.—B. H. Gen. 337, n. 27. —H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. i05.—Sai-iiliis P. Bb. Jam. 216.—DC. Prodi: ii. 91 {Barbi/liis). —Meaja Forsk. Fl. 127.—Portesia Cat. Diss. 369, t. 215, 216.—Toi-pesia Roem. S^n. 86.—Mafureira Bbrtol. jifisc. Bot. ix. t. 2. —Acrilia Guiseb. Fl. Brit. 129.— Pholacidia Geisee. loe. cit. • Tlie poUen re&embles that of Melia (p. 471, note 1).. 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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