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Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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and sprinkled over withdots and little broken yellow lines; yellow on the outsideand ornamented with a few red lines. Filament 1, in- serted at the tube of the inner corolla under the upper seg-ment of the outer one, thick, broadish dilated at the top forthe reception of the anther, whitish, the leng-th of the co-rolla. Anther very large, adnate, 2-parted lengthways,bifid at the top, whitish. Gernien inferior, globular, vil-lous. Sti/le filiform, slender, the length of the stamen,pressed close to the filament, enclosed at the upper part be-tween the lobes of the anther. Stigma capitate, compress-ed, white. Capsule globular, villous, thickish, three-cell-ed (perhaps also 3-valved). Seeds more than one, roundishcornered. NOTE. The IpoMfEA bona nox (3. purpurascens of the 290th article of this work,as Mr. Herbert has kindly suggested to us, is evidently the Ipomcea mnri^cata. Jacq. hort. schcenb. 3. t, 323. A correction which we shall make morefully in the Appendix to the present volume.
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329 GESNERIA aggregata.New Brazil Gesneria, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat, ord. Campanulace/E. Jussieu gen. 163. Div, I. Antherae dis-tinctae. Gesxere-^:. Richard apud Kunth nov. gen. et spec. 2. 315. GESNERIA. Cal. germini adnatus ; limbo libero, 5-partito. Cor,tubulosa, superne ampiiata; limbo bilabiato; labio superiore emarginato-bilobo, inferiore 3-fido. Stig. bilobum. Caps, calyce vestita, 1-locularis,2-valvis; placentis parietalibus 2 oppositis, bilamellatis. HerbcBy snffrutices aut Jrutices folds oppositis, ternis aut quaternis, intCgris, Pedunculi axillares 1- aut multi- Jiori, aut spicce terminales, CorollsecoccinecB aut viresceiites, Kunth loc. cit. G. aggregata, tota villosa ; ramis teretibus; foliis oppositis oblongo-ovatiscrenatis; pedunculis 2-4, axillaribus, unifloris, aggregatis; coroUisclavato-cylindricis, hinc basi subdidymo-ventricosis. Herhacea ? erecta. Fol. rugosa, subtus tomentoso-albicantia; petioluspluries brevior lamina. Pedunculi Jiliformes, Jlexiles, longiore
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