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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... length , oblong , pedunculated , pale green , convoluted , rather shorter than the spadix , which is cylindrical , but attached for the greater part of its length to the spatha . Stamens covering the upper and free part of the spadix ...
... length , oblong , pedunculated , pale green , convoluted , rather shorter than the spadix , which is cylindrical , but attached for the greater part of its length to the spatha . Stamens covering the upper and free part of the spadix ...
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... length , growing in their native country ei- ther upon the ground , or from the trunks of trees , drooping , much branched , the branches mostly verticillate , jointed , fragile at the joints , everywhere almost exactly cylindrical ...
... length , growing in their native country ei- ther upon the ground , or from the trunks of trees , drooping , much branched , the branches mostly verticillate , jointed , fragile at the joints , everywhere almost exactly cylindrical ...
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... length is equalled or some- times surpassed , are of a fine red colour , changing to rose as they advance in age . Perianth of 6 nearly equal , oblong , linear - lanceolate leaflets , all nearly erect , so as to form an oblong tube ...
... length is equalled or some- times surpassed , are of a fine red colour , changing to rose as they advance in age . Perianth of 6 nearly equal , oblong , linear - lanceolate leaflets , all nearly erect , so as to form an oblong tube ...
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... length , linear lanceolate , of a delicate submembranaceous substance , pale green , tapering at the base , and at the extremity ; slightly pubescent , obscurely fringed at the margin , fur- nished through the centre with a strong ...
... length , linear lanceolate , of a delicate submembranaceous substance , pale green , tapering at the base , and at the extremity ; slightly pubescent , obscurely fringed at the margin , fur- nished through the centre with a strong ...
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... length of the leaf , cylindrical , rather broader at the base . From the top of the root , and in the centre of the leaves , arises the cylindri- cal stalk , shorter than the petioles , erect , and supporting the elliptical- quadrate ...
... length of the leaf , cylindrical , rather broader at the base . From the top of the root , and in the centre of the leaves , arises the cylindri- cal stalk , shorter than the petioles , erect , and supporting the elliptical- quadrate ...
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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