582 



BOTANY 



to form an unilocular ovary with one, pendulous ovule. Fruit, a 



Kir;. i'*\.J<itforrhi:a peltatn. (A nat. size). OFFICIAL. (Att-r UERI; uml .SCHMIDT.) 



berry or drupe. 



Endosperm wanting. Floral formula, P 3 + 3, 

 A 3 + 3 + 3 + 3, G 3 (Figs. 602, 603). 



IMPORTANT GENKUA AND SPECIES (~). 

 /. it ii /-us nobilis, the Laurel, is a dioecious, ever- 

 green tree of the Mediterranean region, which 

 was well known in the early period of the 

 Grecian civilisation ; it is frequently grown 

 in cool greenhouses (Fig. 604). Large planta- 

 tions are grown at the Lake of Garda, where 

 the oil is extracted, and here the trees ripen 

 their oval, blackish-blue drupes in October. 

 The widening of the floral axis just below the 

 insertion of tlir- fruit is characteristic. The 

 gt mis Cinnamomum includes a number of economically important trees such 



Kir;. 002. Floral diagram of 1'trgea. 

 (After EICHLER.) 



