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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



at the base. Fragariopsis^ consisting of climbing shrubs from Brazil, 

 owes its name to its androcenm, formed of a very variable number of 

 anthers, applied upon the conical surface of a glandiilar receptacle. 

 The quadrilocular ovary is also surmounted by a wide obpyramidal 

 style bearing above four small stigmatiforous lips. All these genera 

 recall the organisation of Pliikenetia., which has also a large style, 

 of variable form, almost spherical or obpyramidal, with stigmatiferous 

 lips more or less prominent, a fi-uit with three or four shells, more or 

 less projecting or horned, and anthers indefinite in number, foui'- 

 lobed, extrorse, inserted on a conical or hemispherical receptacle. 

 This genus is found in America, Africa, and tropical Oceania. 



Dalecliampia (fig. 190-195), of which a special tribe has been 

 made, should, it appears to us, only form a sub-series near the pre- 

 ceding genera. It has a great analogy with PluJccnetia, the style 



Bah'cliampia [CremyJii/llain) sjmthtiluta. 



Fis 



190. Infloi'e?cence seen from the side of 

 the female flower. 



Fig. 191. Inflorescence seen from (he side of 

 the male flower. 



Dalfi'hanipla Cremojjhi/Uttm) sjinthnhta. 



being also in one piece, but more elongated in a club or column, 

 with stigmatiferous lobes little developed, corresponding to the 



ovary cells or to the interposed par- 

 titions (fig. 194, 195). The recep- 

 tacle, bearing an indefinite number 

 of stamens, becomes a column 

 longer and thinner. The flowers of 

 both sexes are collected in a con- 

 tracted mass, surrounded by two 

 bracts, often coloured, forming a 

 general involucre to the inflores- 

 cence. There is also a special in- 

 volucel for the male flowers united in a capituliform cyme, and for the 

 female, forming without and below the males, a small threo-flowerod 

 cyme. Species of Lulechauipia have been found in all hot regions. 



Fig. 192. Long. soot, of inflorescence. 



