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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... seed in size , yellowish - white . Calyx very minute , cut into usually four ovate , obtuse , segments . Corolla 4 ... seeds , which seem to be collected around a pellucid central receptacle , and are beautifully striated with dots ...
... seed in size , yellowish - white . Calyx very minute , cut into usually four ovate , obtuse , segments . Corolla 4 ... seeds , which seem to be collected around a pellucid central receptacle , and are beautifully striated with dots ...
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... seeds , too , GÆRTNER says , differ from those of the Cactus , inasmuch as the latter have an albumen ; but when ... seeds . Fig . 7. Single seed . Fig . 8. Seed , cut through vertically , to shew the embryo . Fig . 9. Embryo removed ...
... seeds , too , GÆRTNER says , differ from those of the Cactus , inasmuch as the latter have an albumen ; but when ... seeds . Fig . 7. Single seed . Fig . 8. Seed , cut through vertically , to shew the embryo . Fig . 9. Embryo removed ...
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... its bivalved capsule . Fig . 5. Capsule se- parated from the scale . Fig . 6. Seeds . - All but Fig . 1. more or less mag- nified . Doodia aspera 8 Ingia uop DOODIA ASPERA . Rigid Doodia Its upright tree-like mode of growth is unusual ...
... its bivalved capsule . Fig . 5. Capsule se- parated from the scale . Fig . 6. Seeds . - All but Fig . 1. more or less mag- nified . Doodia aspera 8 Ingia uop DOODIA ASPERA . Rigid Doodia Its upright tree-like mode of growth is unusual ...
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... Seeds spheri- cal . The genus Doodia is peculiar to New Holland , and was named by our learned countryman Mr BROWN , in honour of SAMUEL DOODY , one of our earliest investigators of Crypto- gamic Plants . One of its species , D. caudata ...
... Seeds spheri- cal . The genus Doodia is peculiar to New Holland , and was named by our learned countryman Mr BROWN , in honour of SAMUEL DOODY , one of our earliest investigators of Crypto- gamic Plants . One of its species , D. caudata ...
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... frond , natural size . Fig . 3. Segment of a leaf . Fig . 4. Portion of a segment , with a cluster of fructification . Fig . 5. Capsule and seeds , magnified . Dendrobium Rorardi . DENDROBIUM PIERARDI . Splendid Dendrobium . GYNANDRIA.
... frond , natural size . Fig . 3. Segment of a leaf . Fig . 4. Portion of a segment , with a cluster of fructification . Fig . 5. Capsule and seeds , magnified . Dendrobium Rorardi . DENDROBIUM PIERARDI . Splendid Dendrobium . GYNANDRIA.
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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