This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... Pistillode 0. Fem. Fl. Sepals 3-4, imbricate, often minute. Ovary 3-celled; styles filiform, often very long and laciniate or fimbriate; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 minute 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.--Species upwards of 220, tropical ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... Pistillode 0. Fem. Fl. Sepals 3-4, imbricate, often minute. Ovary 3-celled; styles filiform, often very long and laciniate or fimbriate; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule of 3 minute 2-valved crustaceous cocci. Seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.--Species upwards of 220, tropical and subtropical. Fem. bracts solitary, very large, 2-flowered. 1. A. Dalzellii, Hook, f.; shrubby, glabrous, leaves long-petioled ovate obtuse base cuneate obscurely crenate, bract very large orbiculaxreniform 2-tid., peduncle capillary. The Concan?, Dahell. Much branched, branches terete, bark brown. Leaves 2-3 in., membranous, 3-5plinerved, nerves very slender; petiole J-l in., very slender. Bracts (female flowering) i-4; in. diam., quite entire; peduncles J-l in.; sepals lauceolutc, ciliate; ovary gliibrous, 3-4-celled; styles pectinately laciniate, e in. long.--A very remarkable species, of which there are fern, specimens and a good drawing in Dalzell's Herbarium, but without locality. In the drawing two specimens are represented, one with androgynous spikes, each consisting of one female bract, and a very slender rachis with minute male flowers; the other is wholly female, and bears solitary axillary longpeduncled fern, bracts. Fem. spikes with many bracts. 2. A. paniculata, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 406; leaves long-petioled ovate acuminate, male fl. in axillary filiform long spikes, fern. fl. in axillary and terminal racemes or panicles, bracts minute not enlarged in frnit. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodi: xv. ii. 802. A. racemosa, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7784; Bail . Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 443. A. Wallichiana, Thicaites Enum. 271. A. filiformis, Heyne mss.--Rhcede Hort. Mal. x. t. 83. Deccan Peninsula; from Malabar southward. Ceylon; as...
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