Identifier: floraofsyriapalest00post (find matches)
Title: Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Post, George Edward, 1838-1909
Subjects: Botany -- Syria Botany -- Palestine Botany -- Egypt Sinai
Publisher: Beirut, Syria : Syrian Protestant college
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rarely)hermaphrodite fioioers, the 4-5 sepals imhricated^ the petals3-5, or 0, the stamtiis 5-10, the ovary l-^-oelled, and the cells1-2-ovuled — Leaves simple or compound. Flowers regularor irregular. Sepals free or more or less connate, often un-equal. Disk complete or one sided. Stamens inserted withinor on the disk. 0\arj central or excentric. Ovules amphi-tropous or anatropous, with ventral raphe, and inferior mi-cropyle. Style usually 1. Fruit a capsule or key. Seedsusually without albumen, arilled or naked. 1. ACER. Flowers polygamous. Fruit a double key. 2, STAPHYLEA, Flowers hermaphrodite. Fruit a membranous, 2-3-ceUed capsule. 1. ACER. L. Maple. Qaiqab.Calyx 5-parted, deciduous. Petals as many as calyx-lobes or 0.Filaments of male flowers longer than those of the hermaphrodite.Ovary flattened contrary to septum, cells 2-ovuled. Styles 2, filiform.Key with two, long wings. Embryo conduplicate; cotyledons irregular-ly folded — Trees with simple, opposite leaves. Fm. 85.b d
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(i) Leaf of a species of Maple, (b) Branch with clusters of staminate flowers, subtended byimbricateri bracts, (o A staminate flower, showing the long filaments, (d) A branch withclusters of fertile flowers, subtended by imbricated bracts, (e) A single fertile flower show-ing the anthers, which peer over the edge of the calyx, and the two styles. (/) The sameenlarged, with the floral envelopes removed to show the short filaments. (or) A cluster ofimmature samaras, th) A mature samara, showing the two wings, and the cells, compressedcontrary to the partition. ANACAKDIACE^. (CASHEW FAMILY.) 205 * Leaves membranous^ appearing with Jlowers. 1. A. Hyrcamim, F. & M. § 5 to 6. Leaves heart-shaped ortruncate at base, palinately 5-lobed, .06 broad, glaucous below, deard-ed at the axils of the nerves, the loles coarsely serrate or cut. Wings offruit erect, nearly connivent, .03 long — Spring — Amanus and north-ward. Yar. Reygassei, Boiss. Leaves truncate at base. Keys smaller, ■wings

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