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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Fig. 488. Long. sect, 

 of fruit. 



Fig. 487. Flowers ('fl. 



that of Sarcophyte, 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 



Cynomoriim coccineum. Cape 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- 

 iiophora ; 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 



> Hakv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 574. — Walp. 

 Ann. iii. oil [BUpharochlaimys) . 



■ Eed or yeUow. 



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

 Gen. n. 922 ; Jmceit. iv. 351, t. 2. — Adatss. Fam. 

 des PL ii. 80.— J. Gen. 445.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 241 ; 

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

 Mim. Mm. viii. 420, t. 21.— Endl. 6en. n. 717. 

 ^-Wedd. Ann. So. Nat. s&. 3, xiii. 186, t. 11, 

 fig, 43-47; BwU.Soc.Fot. Fr. iv. (1857) 513, 

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

 Trans. Linn. Soe. xxii. 29, 33, t. 1 A. — Sohnizl. 

 Jconogr. t. 39. — Hopmeist. N. Beitr. i. 572, t. 2 ; 

 Fringsh. Jahrb. i. 109, t. 10 ; Ann. So. Nat. ser. 

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



■• C. eoccineum L. Spec. ed. 4, 89. — Desp. Fl. 



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

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

 Bertol. Fl. Ital. X. 4. — MoR. Fl. Sard. iii. 445. 

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

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

 382. — C. purpureum JBupr. Sert. Tianseh. Mem. 

 Acad. FMersb. xiv. 72. — C. purpureum, qfficinarum 

 MicHBLi, loc. cit. — Kimomorion Diosc. (ex 

 Adans. loc. cit. 549). 



* Found in Spain, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, 

 Greece, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, and other 

 Mediterranean localities, in the Canaries, in 

 Palestine, and Arabia, in Soungari and in the 

 valley of Cashgar, etc. 



' Often four or five. 



' Furnished with a single coat. 



