------ Capparis grandis—natural size—2. A dissected flower, show-
94 irig the sepals, torus, stamens, gynophore, and ovary, with
single detached petal—3. A fruit cut transversely—all magnified.
— Trichauvus ericoides—natural size—2. A flower, showing the
143 relative size of the different parts—3. The same, the sepals and
petals removed showing the insertion of the stamens, the ovary, style
and stigmas. The detached figure the stigmas more magnified and a
petal—4. Stamens—5. A diagram, snowing the arrangement of the parts
of the flo wer—6. A mature capsule hurst—7. A seed with its beak—8.
A portion of a branch showing the scale-like leaves—all magnified.
23
—------------ Melhania abutiloides—natural size—Branches villous,
250 x 51 leaves pubescent above, tomentose beneath—2. A dissected
flower, showing the 3-leaved involucel, (one leaf detached) 5
so paled calyx enclosing the ovary, and the corolla and stamens detached
_3. Detached stamens showing their union at the base—4. The capsule
surrounded by the persistent involucel—5. The ovary cut transversely
—6. One of the carpels, showing by the central position of the partition
the loculicidal dehiscence—7. A portion Of the under surface of a leaf
magnified, to show the pubescence on the leaves which could scarcely
have been represented with sufficient delicacy if not magnified.
24. Nephelium rubrum—copied from Roxburgh’s drawings deposited
n the Calcutta Botanic garden-—This figure represents a portion of the
drawing ƒ«# size.
31
• Crotalaria evolvuloides‘-natural size, but a large form and
perhaps appears more hairy than in nature through the tendency
of such lines, to become thick in course of printing—2. Petals
—3. Calyx forcibly opened to show the stamens, ovary and style—4.
Ovary cut lengthwise—5. A pod—6. The same opened—7. A seed.-— all
more or less magnified.
32
— Sesbania CEgyptiaca—natural size—2• A dissected flower, the
petals removed, the calyx laid open to show the diadelphous
filaments, 9 and 1, and the anthers all equal—3. A portion of a pod
opened, showing the seeds separated by spurious partitions—4-5. Sections
of a seed—all more or less magnified.
' 33 1
------- Abrus fruticulosus—natural size--2. ■ 4- dissected flower
** wings and keel adhering, stamens monadel^hous, much longer
than the ovary and style—3. A portion Of-tfie tw?? opened—4. A seed
—5. The same, the testa and one seed lobe removed to bring into view
the embryo and radicle at the small end—all more or less magnified.
34
—-— Phaseolus rostratus—natural size—2. A flower, the vexil-
1-um removed, and the wings thrown back to show the spirally
twisted keel—3. The (petals removed, showing the spirally involute
diadelphous stamens and style—4. A portion of the ovary opened,
showing the ovules and interposed cellular partitions—all more or less
magnified.
25. The same—A greatly reduced figure of the whole—2. A flower
opened and_iriagnified, showing the sepals, petals, linear incurved
anthers, obcordate pvary, and 2-cleft stigma—3. Ovary cut vertically,
showing its two cells, and solitary erect ovules—4. Berries—5 . Cu
transversely—6. Seed lobes separated, showing the small embryo at the
base—7. Embryo detached. See Roxb. FI. Ind. 2 pg, 272.
| l :,.26 * 8
— -—---- ' Yateria Roxburgliiana—2. Sepals and ovary, with a
299 x 300 singie detached petal—3. Sepals and petals removed,
showing the stamens and stigma—4-5. Detached stamens, back and
front views—6. Ovary cut transversely 3-celled—7. A full grown fruit
cut transversely, showing from the solitary seed that all the ovules
except one had aborted—8. The same cut vertically, the circular spots
are caused by irregularities in the form of the seed lobes, which, when
thus cut are divided in several places—9. A seed, natural size—10. The
same magnified, showing the manner of its suspension from the top
of the cell—aW more orless magnified. I am indebted to the unaided
ingenuity of the artist for these analysis who was not at the time of
making them under my superintendence, and I have not since had the
m eans of verifying them myself.
27 .
------- Yatica Tumbugaia—natural size—2. Dissected flower, corolla
33 detached to show the sepals, stamens, and stigma—3-4. Stamens
back and front views, anthers tipped with a tuft of hairs—5.
Ovary cut transversely 3-celled, with two ovules in each—6. The
same cut vertically, showing the pendulous ovules, conical style, and
three stigmas—7. A mature fruit, with its enlarged wing-like sepals—
8. The same, the sepals removed—9. A seed, the testa removed to
show the superior radicle—all more or less magnified.
28
■ Vitis laccolaria—natural size—2. A flower opened, showing
the petals, stamens, ovary, and sessile rough stigma—3. The
same petals removed—4. Stamens—5. Ovary cut vertically, ovules solitary
in each cell, erect —6. The same cut transversely—7. A seed—all
more or less magnified.
29
Crotalaria speciosa—n alural size—2'. A flower detached to
show the relative size and position of the involucel, calyx and
corolla—3 . The same forcibly opened and the petals removed to bring
into view, the stamens, style and stigma, showing all the filaments
united (monadelphous,) and the anthers alternately linear and globose
—4. The p etals detached—5. Back and front views of one of the linear
anthers--6. The ovary cut longitudinally, showing the ovules—7. A
pod about half grown—8. The same opened—9. A seed—10. The same
cut transversely, not yet mature—11. A portion of a leaf magnified
—all more or less magnified.
30
Crotalaria bifaria—natural size—2. A dissected flower, the
corolla removed and the calyx opened, showing the monadelphous
stamens, ovary and stigma, the anthers oblong and globose—
3. The petals—4. Ovary cut open to show the ovules—5. Leaves magnified
to show the pubescence which is very fine—all more or less magnified.
35
——- Mucuna monosperma—natural size—2. A dissected flower,
the petals removed and the calyx partially opened, showing
the diadelphous stamens, (9 and 1) anthers oblong and globose, the
latter rough—3. The ovary--4. Same cut lengthwise to show the solitary
ovule—all more or less magnified—5. A legume—6. The same opened,
showing the seed with its long linear hilum—natural size.
36
■ - - — Cæsalpinia paniculata—natural size—2. A flower opened to
809 show the different parts—3. The ovary, the calyx and petals,
except the vexellum, removed, to show the attachment of that petal—4.
A legume opened to show the solitary seed—5. A seed cut transversely.
—all more or less magnified.
37
------- Cæsalpinia sepiaria—natural size—2. A dissected flower but
8~3 badly represented, in as much as it seems to place three caly-
cene lobes in place of two, next the axis—3. A legume, natural size—4.
A seed—5. The same, a portion of the testa removed to show the
cotyledons and straight radicle in situ—6. The cotyledons removed—7.
Leaves magnified to show the pubescence.—all more or less magnified.
- Rosa Leschenaultiana—natural size—2. A dissected flower,
" the petals removed, and the segments of the calyx thrown
back to show the contraction of the hollow receptacle round the
style—3. An anther—4. The tube of the receptacle cut vertically to show
the ovaria concealed within—5. A fruit—6. The same cut vertically—o/i
more or less magnified—7. A cluster of fruit—natural size.
39
------ Passiflora Leschenaultii—natural size—2. A dissected flower,
the calyx removed, and the corolla with one row of the
coronal filaments detached, leaving the interior row surrounding the
ovary, stamens and styles—3. Two of the coronal filaments more
magnified—4. A flower cut vertically, showing the stalk of the ovary
surrounded by the united filaments of the stamens, and surmounted by
the styles and stigmas—5. The ovary cut transversely—6. The same
cut longitudinally.
40
----- - Guetarda speciosa—natural size—2. A dissected flower,
12 J showing the tubular truncated calyx : the corolla laid open,
the stamens adhering to its inner surface the whole length of the tube,
equalling the number of its segments, and alternate with them—3.
Ovary cut vertically—4. The same cut transversely showing it, in this
instance, 5-celled—5. A full grown fruit cut across—6. The same cut
vertically, bringing into view through their whole length two of the
curved cells with their enclosed seed—7, A seed removed—all more or
less magnified,