. The natural history of plants. Botany. 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 know

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. The natural history of plants. Botany. 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.âWalp. Ann. iii. oil [BUpharochlaimys). â Eed or yeUow. 3 MicHELi, Nov. Fl. Gen. (1729) 17, t. 12.âL. Gen. n. 922 ; Jmceit. iv. 351, t. 2.âAdatss. Fam. des PL ii. 80.âJ. Gen. 445.âLamk. Diet. ii. 241; Suppl. ii. 434 (part); III. t. 742.âL. C. EiCH. Mim. Mm. viii. 420, t. 21.âEndl. 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.âHook. p. Trans. Linn. Soe. xxii. 29, 33, t. 1 A.âSohnizl. Jconogr. t. 39.âHopmeist. N. Beitr. i. 572, t. 2; Fringsh. Jahrb. i. 109, t. 10 ; Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xi. 37, t. 4, fig. 35-38.âEiCHL. Fi-odr. 122. â ⢠C. eoccineum L. Spec. ed. 4, 8