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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



species, the flowers of which have a short convex receptacle, sup- 

 porting five sepals, imbricated in the bud, and five superposed petals, 

 scarcely united at their bases, and also arranged in imbricated pra3- 

 floration. The androceum is formed of an indefinite number of 

 hypogynous stamens, the filaments also united for a very short 



Ternstrcemia brevipes. 



Fig. 261. 



Flower. 



Fig. 262. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 263. 

 Lonjr. sect, of flower. 



distance with the base of the corolla and surmounted by basifixed 

 anthers, with two adnate cells, almost marginal, dehiscing by two 

 longitudinal 1 clefts and crowned by a pointed prolongation of the 

 connective. The gynseceum is superior, formed of an ovary with two 

 cells, tapering above into a conical style, with apex almost undivided, 

 and stigmatiferous. In the internal angle of each cell descending 

 from the upper part a wide short placenta is inserted, the inferior 

 edge supporting from five to eight suspended anatropous" ovules, 

 with micropyle looking upwards and inwards. The fruit is dry, 

 accompanied at its base by the persistent calyx, apiculate and inde- 

 hiscent ; it encloses a small number of seeds elongated and folded 

 upon themselves, like a horseshoe. Under their coats is found a 

 fleshy embryo, also hippocrepiform, with cylindrical radicle longer 

 than the cotyledons, and surrounded by a fleshy albumen, often thin, 

 or even reduced to a simple membrane. 



Guian., 569, t. 227, 2lF,.—Tonabea J., Gen., 252. 

 — Dupinia Neck., JElem., n. 1042. — Amphania 

 Banks, hiss, (ex Endl.). — Clei/era Thunb., Fl, 

 Jap., 12 (nee DC). — Reimvardtia Korth., Verh, 

 Nat. Gesch. Bot., 101, t. 12 (nee Bt,.).— Wali>., 

 lit])., v. 12'.) (incl. : Erythrochiton Griff., Vcele- 

 keria Kl. & Karst.). 



1 The pollen of Ternstrcemia is formed of 

 ovoid grains analogous to those of the Teas. (H. 

 MOHL., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, ill. 333). It is 

 the same in the other genera {Visnea, Caravpa) 

 where it has been studied. 



- They have two coats. When their anatropy 

 is completed they begin to bend in the inferior 

 portion of their raphe, so that the region of the 

 ehalaza is reflexed upon it outwards and upwards. 

 We have noted (in Adansonia, x. 238) that this 

 is the tirst degree of the false campylotropy that 

 we have seen so noticeable in the Gyrostemonccv 

 (page 42, note 6), and which appears also in some 

 other groups. 



