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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... numerous greenish , nearly spherical , 2 - celled pistils , mostly ternate , in transverse rows , and furnished at the base with 2 or 4 white , clavate bodies , which I suspect to be abortive Anthers . Ovules , several in each cell ...
... numerous greenish , nearly spherical , 2 - celled pistils , mostly ternate , in transverse rows , and furnished at the base with 2 or 4 white , clavate bodies , which I suspect to be abortive Anthers . Ovules , several in each cell ...
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... numerous , crowded , secund flowers , and these as well as the bracteas , by which their 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 ...
... numerous , crowded , secund flowers , and these as well as the bracteas , by which their 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 ...
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... numerous brown chaffy scales , and throwing out a few tough , simple , fibrous roots . Stipes about 2 inches long , smooth , shining , only bearing a few chaffy scales at the base , joint- less . Frond from 12 to 14 inches in length ...
... numerous brown chaffy scales , and throwing out a few tough , simple , fibrous roots . Stipes about 2 inches long , smooth , shining , only bearing a few chaffy scales at the base , joint- less . Frond from 12 to 14 inches in length ...
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... numerous thickly entangled downy roots , with several clusters of ovate , acute , green , re- curved concave scales or stipules at the top , from which the leaves and stalks of the receptacle arise . Leaves 8-10 inches long , all ...
... numerous thickly entangled downy roots , with several clusters of ovate , acute , green , re- curved concave scales or stipules at the top , from which the leaves and stalks of the receptacle arise . Leaves 8-10 inches long , all ...
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... numerous imbricated , cordate , membranaceous scales , having within them a bivalved , reniform , coriaceo- membranaceous capsule , of one cell , and containing numerous minute , spherical , yellow , sporules . This elegant species of ...
... numerous imbricated , cordate , membranaceous scales , having within them a bivalved , reniform , coriaceo- membranaceous capsule , of one cell , and containing numerous minute , spherical , yellow , sporules . This elegant species of ...
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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