Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants...with Remarks Upon Their Generic and Specific Characters, Natural Orders, History, Culture, Time of Flowering, &c, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1823 - Botany |
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... erect , naked , jointed , green , often discoloured with the dried sheathing bases of the former years ' leaves , smooth , succulent , filled with a green , highly acrid juice . Leaves all springing from the summit of the stem , 8 or 10 ...
... erect , naked , jointed , green , often discoloured with the dried sheathing bases of the former years ' leaves , smooth , succulent , filled with a green , highly acrid juice . Leaves all springing from the summit of the stem , 8 or 10 ...
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... erect , so as to form an oblong tube , except at the extremity , which is ringent . The three superior leaflets are connivent , and united at their extremi- ties ; the two lower ones are very gibbous at the base , and instead of being ...
... erect , so as to form an oblong tube , except at the extremity , which is ringent . The three superior leaflets are connivent , and united at their extremi- ties ; the two lower ones are very gibbous at the base , and instead of being ...
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... erect , and supporting the elliptical- quadrate , flatly compressed , nearly erect , green receptacle , with the stalk united near the lower margin , at the back ; its disk expanded , plane , pa- pillose , and slightly downy ; its ...
... erect , and supporting the elliptical- quadrate , flatly compressed , nearly erect , green receptacle , with the stalk united near the lower margin , at the back ; its disk expanded , plane , pa- pillose , and slightly downy ; its ...
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... erect , and gradually passing into bracteas . Flowers about 3 , from the extremity of the stalk , each accompanied by a lanceolate bractea , about as long as the germen . The outer divisions of the perianth are nearly alike , broadly ...
... erect , and gradually passing into bracteas . Flowers about 3 , from the extremity of the stalk , each accompanied by a lanceolate bractea , about as long as the germen . The outer divisions of the perianth are nearly alike , broadly ...
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... erect and incurved , fine purple colour , almost wholly covered by the galea ; middle lobe ob- longo - ovate , rather acute , pendent , or even reflexed , a little waved , yel- lowish - white , pubescent at the base , the margin reddish ...
... erect and incurved , fine purple colour , almost wholly covered by the galea ; middle lobe ob- longo - ovate , rather acute , pendent , or even reflexed , a little waved , yel- lowish - white , pubescent at the base , the margin reddish ...
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2-celled acuminate Anther appear Back view base beautiful beneath Botanic Garden bracteas branches broadly ovate BROWN Caladium calyx Capsule cell ciliated colour Column of fructification corolla curved cylindrical Doodia aspera downy Dr WALLICH erect extremity figure Filaments FILICES filiform fleshy florets foliis footstalk frond Front view genus Germen glabrous glands Glasgow Botanic Garden green GYNANDRIA Hort inches in length inches long involucre KUNTH labello labellum lanceolate leaf leaflets leaves less magnified linear lobes longitudinal margin membranaceous midrib MONOGYNIA native nearly nerves numerous oblong obtuse Osbeckia pale pedicels Peduncles Peperomia perianth petals petiole Pistil plant Pleopeltis Pollen pollen-masses Portion pubescent purple purplish receptacle reticulated Root roundish scales Scape scarcely seeds segments sessile sheathing SHEPHERD shew short side Sir JAMES SMITH slender slightly Sori spadix spatha species specimen spike spreading stamens stem Stigma stove Style terminal transverse tube upper WILLD yellow