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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... fleshy part of the receptacle , each cell covered by a papilla like that of the male flower . Germen solitary , without calyx or corolla , ovate , acuminated , terminating in two short styles , which are just protruded above the cleft ...
... fleshy part of the receptacle , each cell covered by a papilla like that of the male flower . Germen solitary , without calyx or corolla , ovate , acuminated , terminating in two short styles , which are just protruded above the cleft ...
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... fleshy and rigid jointed , green , and each joint seems to be covered with a whitish , pellu- cid , membranous sheath , marked with still more decidedly white lines , giving the whole an elegantly striated appearance . From various ...
... fleshy and rigid jointed , green , and each joint seems to be covered with a whitish , pellu- cid , membranous sheath , marked with still more decidedly white lines , giving the whole an elegantly striated appearance . From various ...
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... fleshy tuber , with a smaller shrivelled one by its side , and above these a few rather thick , carnose , simple fibres . Stem 8 inches to 14 foot high , flexuose , leafy . Leaves lanceolate , the middle ones long and narrow , smooth ...
... fleshy tuber , with a smaller shrivelled one by its side , and above these a few rather thick , carnose , simple fibres . Stem 8 inches to 14 foot high , flexuose , leafy . Leaves lanceolate , the middle ones long and narrow , smooth ...
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... fleshy , convex , the margins thin , and somewhat scariose , the extremities inflexed , so that the essential organs of the flower are almost concealed by them . The upper florets have generally 5 or 4 leaflets to the peri- anth ...
... fleshy , convex , the margins thin , and somewhat scariose , the extremities inflexed , so that the essential organs of the flower are almost concealed by them . The upper florets have generally 5 or 4 leaflets to the peri- anth ...
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... fleshy , pubescent , three - nerved , green above , yellowish , with red margins , nerves and dots beneath , the ... fleshy stems , and have leaves of a bright green colour . The latter , though endowed with a very fleshy or succulent ...
... fleshy , pubescent , three - nerved , green above , yellowish , with red margins , nerves and dots beneath , the ... fleshy stems , and have leaves of a bright green colour . The latter , though endowed with a very fleshy or succulent ...
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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