. The natural history of plants. Botany. Pia. 304. Female flower, Fia. 306. Longitudinal section of e The other members of the section Eumyristica have all the same general organization, with from eight to thirty anthers. In Virola^ which was formerly made a distinct genus, there are usually only as many stamens as there are perianth-leaves, with which they alter- nate. This too is the case with the section Otoha f but the anthers Bot., 380), hold the -view diametrically opposed to this, saying that they "have preferred to retain the name of aril for this," because, "
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Pia. 304. Female flower, Fia. 306. Longitudinal section of e The other members of the section Eumyristica have all the same general organization, with from eight to thirty anthers. In Virola^ which was formerly made a distinct genus, there are usually only as many stamens as there are perianth-leaves, with which they alter- nate. This too is the case with the section Otoha f but the anthers Bot., 380), hold the -view diametrically opposed to this, saying that they "have preferred to retain the name of aril for this," because, " in the examination of two ovules, we thought we were ahle to remark that this organ rises more from the base of the ovule than from the exostome, as asserted by A. de Candolle and ; However, we had shown more than three years before that the aril is a thickening which, arising on the right and the left of the base of the ovule, reaches horizontally back to the hilum, and gradually extends on either side to the exostome j so that the hypo- thesis of J. HooKEB & Thomsok i^l. Ind., i. 154), according to which the mace is of mixed nature—both arillode and true aril—is the only one that comes near the truth. It is an aril produced by both hilum and micropyle. ' The female inflorescences of M. fragrcms a,ve rather comparable to cymes. In the 3-flowered ones, for instance, we may observe this. One flower is central, older, and on a longer pedicel than the others. Where its pedicel separates from the common peduncle of the inflorescence there are two bracts, situated near one another and ,on the same side; each of these has a younger pedicellate flower in its axil. 2 Attbi., Guian., 904, t. 345. — A. DC, ProAr., 194 {Myristicm, sect. iii.).—Sehophora Neck., Elem., 907. *A. DC, in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 4, iv. 30; Prodr., 198 (sect. v.).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - c
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