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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Fig. 488. Long, sect 

 of fruit. 



Fig. 487. Flowers ('j'). 



that of 8arcophijtej and becomes a dry or scarcely drupaceous fruit, 

 the single seed of which encloses a cellulose oily albumen and a small 

 apical embryo. Two (?) species^ of Mystropetalon are distinguished, 



fleshy plants of the 



Cynomorium coccineum. QapC of Good Hope, 



parasitic, coloured,^ 

 with branches covered 

 with scales and termi- 

 nated by spikes of 

 which the male flowers 

 occupy the summit 

 and the female the base. 

 In Cynomorium ^ 

 (fig. 487,488), ofwhich 

 only one,* Mediterra- 

 nean,^species is known , 

 the organization of the 

 gynsecium is nearly 

 the same as in Bala- 

 nojphora ; but the female flower is more complete. It comprises a 

 deep receptacle, the cavity of which lodges the unilocular, uniovulate 

 cell, and its margin bears a perianth of from two to eight folioles ^ 

 (sepals ?) coloured like the rest of the plant. The ovule is descending, 

 very incompletely anatropous, with micropyle directed downwards 

 and outwards.^ The style is terminal, nearly cylindrical, canalicu- 

 late, at summit stigmatiferous obtuse or slightly enlarged. These 

 flowers become hermaphrodite when to the parts just enumerated is 

 added an epigynous stamen, similar to that of the male flower. The 



' Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 574. — Walp. 

 Ann. iii. oil {Blepharochlamys) . 



- Red or yellow. 



3 MicHELi, Nov. PL Gen. (1729) 17, t. 12.— L. 

 Gen. n. 922 ; Jmcen. iv. 351, t. 2. — Adans. i^««z. 

 desPl. ii. 80.— J. Gen. 445.— Lamk. Bict. ii. 241 ; 

 Suppl. ii. 434 (part) ; III. t. 742.— L. C. Rich. 

 M€m. Mus. viii. 420, t. 21.— Endl. Gen. n. 717. 

 — Wedd. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xiii. 186, t. 11, 

 fig. 43-47; Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. iv. (1857) 513, 

 795 ; Arch. Mus. x. 269, t. 24-27.— Hook. f. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 29, 33, t. 1 A. — Schnizl. 

 leonogr. t. 39, — Hofmeist. N. Beitr. i. 572, t. 2 ; 

 Pringsh. Jahrh. i. 109, t. 10 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 4, xi. 37, t, 4, fig. 35-38.— EiCHL. Prodr. 122. 



* C. coccineum L. Spec. ed. 4, 89. — Desf. Fl. 



Atl. ii. 330. — BoiSGEL. Malt. t. ii. (ex Pritz.) — 

 Tratt. Thes. t. 30.— Guss. Fl. Sic. ii. 561.— 

 Bektol. Fl. Ital. X. 4.— Mor. Fl. Sard. iii. 445. 

 —Webb. Fl. Canar. iii. 431. — Willk. et Lge. 

 Prodr. Fl. Eisp. i. 223.— Parlat. Fl. Ital. iv. 

 382. — C. purpureum Rupr. Sert. Tiansch. Mem. 

 Acad. Peter sb. xiv. 72. — C. purpureum officinarum 

 MiCHELi, loc. cit. — Kunomorion Diosc. (ex 

 Adans. loc. cit. 549). 



5 Found in Spain, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, 

 Greece, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, and other 

 Mediterranean localities, in tlie Canaries, in 

 Palestine, and Arabia, in Soungari and in the 

 valley of Cashgar, etc. 



^ Often four or five. 



' Furnished with a single coat. 



