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Title: Text-book of structural and physiological botany
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Thomé, Otto Wilhelm, 1840- Bennett, Alfred William, 1833-1902
Subjects: Plant physiology
Publisher: New York : J. Wiley & sons
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FiG. ^-jo.—Livisionia ansiralis, a fan-palm (greatly reduced). locular, consisting of three united carpels, or trilocular and apocarpous.Each of the three loculi contains a single ovule, which is generally erect special Morphology and Classification, 353 and orthotropous; but two of the ovules usually disappear before matur-ing into seeds. The fruit is a one- or three-seeded drupe or berry, the
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Fig. Afjx.—Seaforthia elegans, a feather-palm (greatly rediicedy seed consisting of a minute embryo buried in a very large oily orhomy endosperm, which is at first milky, afterwards solid, and often A A 354 Structural and Physiological Botany. hollow. The embryo lies in a hollow in the periphery of the endo-sperm (see Fig. 305, p. 148), and is covered by a thin layer of thelatter like a lid. There are about three hundred species of palms,nearly all tropical. The only native European species is the dwarf-palm, Chamce7ops humilis (Pig. 469), which is found as far as 45^ northlatitude. The uses of palms are innumerable. The inhabitants ofentire territories live on the fruits of some kinds, as the date-palm,Phoenix dactylifera, in India, Arabia, Persia, and Egypt, and the cocoa-nut palm, Cocos micifera, in all tropical countries. The stems of somespecies, as Sagus Rumphii, Corypha tinibraculifei^a^ and BorassusJiabeUifo7mis^ contain a starch known in commerce as sago. The leaf-buds of A

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