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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... scarcely exceeding a hemp - seed in size , yellowish - white . Calyx very minute , cut into usually four ovate , obtuse , segments . Corolla 4 - partite , segments oblongo - ovate concave , nearly equal , erecto- patent , including the ...
... scarcely exceeding a hemp - seed in size , yellowish - white . Calyx very minute , cut into usually four ovate , obtuse , segments . Corolla 4 - partite , segments oblongo - ovate concave , nearly equal , erecto- patent , including the ...
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... scarcely have ventured to keep the genus Rhipsalis distinct . This plant flowers during the greater part of the year , and requires the heat of the stove . We possess in the Botanic Garden some other species of this genus , which are ...
... scarcely have ventured to keep the genus Rhipsalis distinct . This plant flowers during the greater part of the year , and requires the heat of the stove . We possess in the Botanic Garden some other species of this genus , which are ...
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... scarcely separable from the upper one ; their colour is a pale yellow - green , with purplish red lines . Lip large , and 3 - lobed , yellowish - white at its base within , and having , just where it joins on to the receptacle , an ...
... scarcely separable from the upper one ; their colour is a pale yellow - green , with purplish red lines . Lip large , and 3 - lobed , yellowish - white at its base within , and having , just where it joins on to the receptacle , an ...
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... scarcely equalling it in length . Column of fructification dilated at the margin , into a petal - like form , ovate , convex , rose - coloured , and co- vering the aperture of the lip . Anther seated on a small swelling , just beneath ...
... scarcely equalling it in length . Column of fructification dilated at the margin , into a petal - like form , ovate , convex , rose - coloured , and co- vering the aperture of the lip . Anther seated on a small swelling , just beneath ...
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... scarcely at all contracted , thicken- ed at the margin , the front declined , the back of it surmounted with a broadly ovato - lanceolate , acuminate , nearly erect appendage , which is slightly convex , the margin alone , near the base ...
... scarcely at all contracted , thicken- ed at the margin , the front declined , the back of it surmounted with a broadly ovato - lanceolate , acuminate , nearly erect appendage , which is slightly convex , the margin alone , near the base ...
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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