. The natural history of plants. Botany. 14 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. under the ovary, within a thick glandular disk, very variable in form, with which the receptacle is covered. The anther is bilocular,' extrorse, often didymous, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts which often become confluent in their upper part.^ The ovary is more or Sippoeratea obtusifolia.. Fig. 22. Flower (|). Fig. 23. Diagram. Fig. 24. Long. sect, of flo-w'er. Sippoeratea obtusifolia. less deeply buried in the central cavity of the disk, and its three cells, alternate with the stamens, contain in their inner angle a p

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. The natural history of plants. Botany. 14 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. under the ovary, within a thick glandular disk, very variable in form, with which the receptacle is covered. The anther is bilocular, ' extrorse, often didymous, dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts which often become confluent in their upper part.^ The ovary is more or Sippoeratea obtusifolia.. Fig. 22. Flower (|). Fig. 23. Diagram. Fig. 24. Long. sect, of flo-w'er. Sippoeratea obtusifolia. less deeply buried in the central cavity of the disk, and its three cells, alternate with the stamens, contain in their inner angle a placenta bearing two ascending ovules with micropyle exterior and inferior, or two or three pairs of ovules in two parallel series, ascending or horizontal. The ovary extends upwards in a style, the stigmatiferous summit of which is either not enlarged, or dilated in three lobes. The fruit generally consists of three dry carpels, united only near the base, then dilated iu their free part to a compressed hollow, elliptic or orbicular, indehiscent or opening in two lateral valves by a double longitudinal cleft, ventral or dorsal. Each encloses one or many ascending seeds, often prolonged to membranous wings, imbricate in their lower part, whose superior tegu- mentary cavity contains a thick and fleshy embryo, with cotyledons often united in a single mass, and short inferior radicle. The Hippocratece consist of small climbing trees from all the tropical regions of both worlds. Their leaves are opposite, articulate, simple, . Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.