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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... whole fructification is so nearly allied to the other cactoid plants , that , were it not for the strong peculiarity in the habit of the plant , and the high authority of GÆRTNER and HAWORTH , the lat- ter of whom has laboured so much ...
... whole fructification is so nearly allied to the other cactoid plants , that , were it not for the strong peculiarity in the habit of the plant , and the high authority of GÆRTNER and HAWORTH , the lat- ter of whom has laboured so much ...
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... whole an elegantly striated appearance . From various parts of the joints , particularly at the setting on of the branches , numerous bundles of whitish succulent roots are thrown out , which float in the atmo- sphere , or attach ...
... whole an elegantly striated appearance . From various parts of the joints , particularly at the setting on of the branches , numerous bundles of whitish succulent roots are thrown out , which float in the atmo- sphere , or attach ...
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... whole length , with long , cylindrical , membranaceous , brownish - green , sheathing scales , and with one , rather large , ovato - rotund dark - green leaf , deeply marked with lon- gitudinal nerves , and somewhat reticulated . Flower ...
... whole length , with long , cylindrical , membranaceous , brownish - green , sheathing scales , and with one , rather large , ovato - rotund dark - green leaf , deeply marked with lon- gitudinal nerves , and somewhat reticulated . Flower ...
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... whole length . A native of South America and the West Indian Islands , and an annual , but easily propagated , and well deserving of a place in every stove . It flowers during a considerable period of the summer ; and even the ...
... whole length . A native of South America and the West Indian Islands , and an annual , but easily propagated , and well deserving of a place in every stove . It flowers during a considerable period of the summer ; and even the ...
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... Whole plant smooth ( according to SMITH ) , with floating foliage , and like a Potamogeton in its mode of growth . Leaves upon long cylindrical stalks , varying , as it would appear , remarkably in their form ; in my specimens broadly ...
... Whole plant smooth ( according to SMITH ) , with floating foliage , and like a Potamogeton in its mode of growth . Leaves upon long cylindrical stalks , varying , as it would appear , remarkably in their form ; in my specimens broadly ...
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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