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NATURAL ITISTORY OF PLANTS. 



first those of some of the few species cultivated in our greenhouses, 

 such as E. cyaneua (figs. 199-201), we shall see that their receptacle 

 is convex and considerably elongated. It bears in succession five 

 pointed sepals, valvate in the bud, five alternate petals, induplicate 

 in the bud, furnished inside the base with a small, glandular, laciniate 

 projection unequally cut towards the summit. Above the perianth 

 the receptacle is raised a little in the form of a short column, thick- 

 ened in the upper part into a circular, glandular, crenate, mammse- 

 form disk, above which the stamens are inserted. These are super- 



JSlceocarptis cyaneus. 



Fig. 199. 

 Bud (f). 



Fig. 200, 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 201. 

 Long, section of flower (^). 



posed in phalanges to the petals in the concavity of which they are 

 found lodged in the bud j 1 each phalanx is composed of seven or 

 eight stamens, with free filaments, and two-celled anthers, whose 

 linear cells are surmounted by a pointed prolongation of the connec- 

 tive, within which they open in their upper part only, by two short 

 clefts, confluent at the upper extremity. 2 Within the stamens the 

 apex of the receptacle bears the gynseceum, formed of an ovary with 

 two incomplete cells, each containing an indefinite number of anatro- 



ii. 25 ; in Payer Fani. Nat., 277. — B. H., Gen., 

 239, 987, n. 38. — BoCQ., in Adansonia, vii. 52. 

 — Lem. & Dcne., Tr. Gen., 341. — Ganitrus 

 G;ertn., Fruct., ii. 271, t. 139. — Picera Forst., 

 Char. Gen., 79, t. 40.— DC, Prodr., \. 520.— 

 Craspedum Lour., Fl. Cochinch., 336. — Ade- 

 nodus Lour., loc. cit., 294. — Lochneria Scop., 

 Introd., 1232. — Aceralium DC, Prodr., i. 529. 

 — Acronodia Be., Bijdr., 123. — Acrozns 

 Spreng., Syst. Cur. Post., 149. — Monocera 



Jack, Mai. Misc. (ex Hook., Pot. Misc., ii. 

 85). — Wight & Arn., Prodr., i. 83. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5387.—Peythea Endl., Gen., n. 53S6. — 

 Perinkara Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 447. SikJci- 

 mensisandt/Iabrescens. — Mast. Fl. P. I?id.,i\A03. 



1 In many other species, there is besides, a 

 stamen in the interval of each bundle, that is to 

 say, opposite each sepal. 



2 These clefts are generally slightly introrse, 

 sometimes quite lateral. 



