10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTADELPHOUS»
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pentadelphous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Journal [afterw.] The Madras journal of literature and ...
In 1789, Professor Murray of Gottingen published his genus Stalagmitis,
assigning to it a quaternary proportion of sepals and petals, pentadelphous
stamens, and a one-celled, three-seeded berry. In 1791, Goertner attempted,
from an ...
Madras literary society, John Carnac Morris, 1836
2
The Madras Journal of Literature and Science
In 17*39, Professor Murray of Gottingen published his genus Slalagmitis,
assigning to it a quaternary proportion of sepals and petals, pentadelphous
stamens, and a one-celled, three-seeded berry. In 1791, Gcertner attempted,
from an ...
3
Madras Journal of Literature and Science
But on turning to his character, as given in Schrcber's Genera Plantarum, we find
a 4-leaved calyx, a 4-petaled corolla, and a 4-loLed stigma, combined with
pentadelphous stamens, 3- • One of those received from Mrs. Walker. seeded
berries, ...
4
Plants and Their Uses: an Introduction to Botany
Stamens in five clusters are said to be pentadelphous.1 The stamens of the
linden are always pentadelphous, and sometimes each cluster includes a
staminode to which the anther-bearing filaments are coalescent. Throughout the
family two ...
Frederick Leroy Sargent, 1913
5
United States Exploring Expedition: During the year 1838, ...
... between the Eumalvece and the Sidece, characterized by the simple
pentadelphous column, the capitate or introrse stigmata, and the solitary
resupinate-suspended ovules. This would place them next to Sidalcea, in which
the stamens are ...
Charles Wilkes, United States. Congress, 1854
6
The Flora of Jamaica; a Description of the Plants of that ...
tube, pentadelphous at the apex, with the brotherhoods connected throughout,
filiform, hearing at the apex 243 linear or winding anthers (so as to resemble a
single anther). In other respects as in the genus, BOMBAX. Name, from sg/ov
wool ...
7
Flora of Tropical Africa
BOMBAX, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 210. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate or
obscurely 3—5-lobed. Corolla 5-lobed._ Stamens pentadelphous below, each
parcel placed opposite to a petal and dividing above into numerous filaments; ...
Daniel Oliver, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, David Prain, 1868
PENTADELPHOUS, a. perita-dil'fus [Gr. pentf, five; adel'phos, a brother]: in bot.,
having the stamens arranged in five bundles or divisions. PENTADESMA, pen ta-
des ma: genus of trees of nat. order PENSIVE-PENTADELPHOUS.
9
Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: containing ...
137. Petals 5, the one, at the opposite side from the curvature of the stamens,
much broader than the others. Column of stamens declinate, pentadelphous at
the apex, each bundle opposite to a petal and bearing on the outside three
anthers.
Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott, 1834
10
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
313-321 :— (a) That the vascular units serving each single group of stamens are
derived from trunk- cords which also furnish the petal midribs ; hence in all
species with a pentadelphous androecium the bundles of stamens are
superposed on ...
Linnean Society of London, 1937
