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XATCIRAL niSTOBY OF PLANTS. 



Schiimacheria cattaneeefolia. 

 Fig. 141. 

 Flower. 



whole, it differs only in a very limited number of characters. The 

 calyx consists of five imbricated sepals (fig. 141), the corolla of 

 as many petals, also imbricated. The 

 numerous stamens are all situated as in 

 Pleurandra, on one side of the receptacle, 

 opposite one of the sepals ; the filaments, 

 free above, are united below into a blade 

 concave internally.' The anthers are 

 erect,' consisting of two cells adnate for 

 their whole length to the borders of the 

 connective, and dehiscing by two short 

 clefts, or elongated pores, one on each 

 side of the top of the connective. The 

 gynaeceum is excentric, consisting of two free carpels placed face to 



face, one side of each being turned 

 towards the concavity of the 

 androceum. There is often also 

 a third carpel placed between the 

 two others and the androceum 

 to which it turns its back. 

 Each of these carpels consists of a 

 uniovulate ovary, tapering into a 

 slender style, whose tip is covered 

 internally by stigmatic pai)illa}. 

 The ovule, inserted near the base 

 of the ovary, is ascending, with 

 the micropyle downwards and in- 

 wards. Tlie fruit consists of two 

 or three dry indehiscent one- 

 seeded carpels ; and the arillate 

 seed* contains a minute embryo 

 near the apex of the fieshy albu- 

 men. The genus Sc/ttdiiacheria 



Telracera lioiriniana.' 



Via. 112. 



Fructiferous branch. 



AuNOTT, Juliiili.New P/iilos. Journ., xvi. 315. 

 — WioiiT, Illtuitr., t. 4. — Kndl., (Jen., u. 1751. 

 — Hook. & Thomh., Ft. Ind., i. Go. — Wai.i'., 

 Kep.,\.(A; ^h;/., iv. 35.— B. H., den., 13, n. 

 8 — II. H.V., Ailamunia, vi. 2m.— J'letirudetmiu 

 Grahamii Au.n., loc. fit. 



' The base of the lUKlroceuiii foriim a Hort of 

 imperfect tube, or bliell, rcciiUinfj that oi Lictfth'm. 



" That is, when adult ; but at a certain stago 

 the liliiniunts are bont tlowii on the jjvnaieuin. 



^ Its Hiirfuce in punctato; the aril is but little 

 develoi)e«l. 



•• See Adaiisonia, vii. 300, t.vii. This siKvie*. 

 a native of Montba/o and Zanzibar, in, so to 

 speiik, interineiliato between Ttlracent and 

 Jlihbirlla. 



