. The natural history of plants. Botany. 142 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. in tropical "Western Africa; the others, seven or eight in number/ inhabit the whole of tropical America. VII. PHYLLANTHUS SEEIES. Phyllanthus, the best known genus of this series, is not the most complete type. This is found to be represented by other plants, such, for instance, as Wielandia elegans^ (fig. 230-233), a shrub from the Seychelles and neighbouring isles, which has monoecious Wielandia eUgans.. Fig. 230. Male flower, Fig. 231. Male flower, Fig. 233. Female flower, Fig. 232. Female flower, diagram. longitu
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. The natural history of plants. Botany. 142 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. in tropical "Western Africa; the others, seven or eight in number/ inhabit the whole of tropical America. VII. PHYLLANTHUS SEEIES. Phyllanthus, the best known genus of this series, is not the most complete type. This is found to be represented by other plants, such, for instance, as Wielandia elegans^ (fig. 230-233), a shrub from the Seychelles and neighbouring isles, which has monoecious Wielandia eUgans.. Fig. 230. Male flower, Fig. 231. Male flower, Fig. 233. Female flower, Fig. 232. Female flower, diagram. longitudinal section (f). longitudinal section. diagram. flowers, with a convex receptacle. It bears a calyx of five sepals, slightly united at the base, arranged in quincuncial prsefloration in the bud, and a corolla of five free, imbricated, alternate petals. Farther in is found a cupular disk, with five but slightly prominent ^ alternipetalous angles. The receptacle afterwards rises in a thick central column which supports five alternipetalous stamens, whose nearly sessile anthers are introrse in the bud, afterwards reflexed outwardly at anthesis, and have two cells deshiscing by longitudinal clefts. The column is terminated by a body with five oppositi- petalous branches, representing the divisions of a rudimentary gyngeceum. In the female fiowers, within the perianth and disk, similar to those of the male flower, is seen a fertile gynseceum, the ovary having five cells superposed to the petals and surmounted by a style with five stigmatiferous, bi-lobed, reflexed branches. In the 1 PcEPP. et EifDL. Nov. Qen. et Spec. iii. t. 246, a H. Bn. Euphorbiae. 568, t. 22, fig. 6-10 ; in flg. 2.—Oliv. Fl. trap. Afr. i. 344.—H. Bn. in Adansonia, ii. 32.—Savia ekgans M. Aro. in Adansonia, xi. 111. note.—Walp. Mep. i, 549; Linruea, xxxii. 78 ; Prodr. 228, ii. 829 ; v. 408 ; Ann. iv. 442. ' Sometimes hardly distinct.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images