PHYTOCRENAI i ; /, 



i justly shown that in this family the I 



lull : 



irder to fai our their 

 witi: an involucre, and I Ij t 1 



■ 

 tii. m, for he de8ci ibea the ovule of Pli | 



the cell, while 1" I be s 1 as atl <• - 



t be embn o, which bi rerted, 



drawing of the Beed displays the 



lularly lobed albumen, while in the text he proclaims the latter to 

 tortuplicated exalbuminous cotyledons ; more lately, b 

 end of the Bame volume, be latter j f this m 



rds the presence of albumen and the structure of the cotyledons. II 

 draw Lmirably with the analysis and description i 



Lindley, first given in thia work (p. 270). 



•• M.i.' complete evidence, however, is still wanting to determine the >•>. I 

 of the group of the Phj tocrenai • Be, In if- unisexual flo I - corolla witl 



of a thick columi 

 e, with an overhanging pulvio I ma, its having '1 ovules alwaj 

 from the summit of a single cell, its fruit with a putamen containing a solitary 

 nucleus, which consists of copious albu l a small superior 



radicle, and foliaceoua cotyledons, this family ap] ally 



through [odes) the tribe S the Order [i • •. It remaii 



rtained whether, n the Pbyti , the ovarj is normally 1 -celled ; it i 



be remembered that (the genera of the Icacin rere universally held to be uni- 



locular, until it was lately Bhown this character is due only to abortion. 



■■ Borne relation to the Ebenaceae may be traced in its unisexual flowers, and it" the 

 10 linear hypogy nous lobes of Nansiatum be regarded as a double inner 

 Bteri] the approach is more evident, [f, a n, we consider the ovariui 



Phytocrene to be 1-celled only by abortion, and normally plurilocular, as in I 



with "2 i.vul. tided from the summit of thi 



approximation to the Ebenaceae would be esl I ; and this relation is still further 



confirmed by its fleshy drupaceous monoBpermous fruit, the perfed 

 inverted seed in each cell, its albumen divided into lamellar plal 

 radicle, and large foliaceoua coti led 



• ■ On tl e structure of the seed with exalbuminous pli- 



ribed by Blume, It'.. 

 • ion ..f I' • terocar| i 



Beminal structure tends to Bhow its nearer relation I 



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