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Title: The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828 Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833 Kennedy, John, 1759-1842 Jackson, George, d. 1811 Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plants, Cultivated Botany Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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accepted Genera, in this country; wc have, in the prefent inltance, chofe rather the authorityof Martyn, Curtis, Willdenow, Sec. in preference; who all have followed the Kew Catalogue in thename of this Genus. It is true, Thunberg, in his Prodromus Plantarum Capenfium, P. 1. p. 5g, hasit lull under the Genus, Crinum; and, as Crinum pendulum, our prefent fubject, was known for manyyears. It is a very fcarce plant, and is to be found but in few collections; the increafe being onlyfrom the root, and the importation cf the bulbs has been but feldom. The feeds do not come tomaturity with us, of this fpecies; although thofe of the C. angufiifolius are conltantly perfected. Itmult be treated as a dry ftove plant, or kept on a ihelf in the hot-houfe; fhould be planted in f.mdyloam, and have plenty of room in the pot. Flowers in July and Augult. From the choice collection of Jofeph Cowper, Efq. of Clapton, we were obligingly favoured withthe plant, from which this figure was taken. n. ®&
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/ < ////</■////<■/.J , //$■////■ J w. PLATE CCLXV1. PLATYLOBIUM OVATUM.Oval-leaved Flat-Pea. CLASS XVII. ORDER IV.DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Chives in two Sets. Ten Chives. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx campanulatus, quinquefidus; laciniisduabus fupremis maximis, obtufis. Staminaomnia coalita. Legumen pedicillatum,comprcffum, dorfo alatum, polylpermum. Cup bellfhaped, five-cleft; the two upper ieg-ments very large and obtufe. The Chivesall united. Pod on a foot-ftalk, compreffed,winged along the back, many feeded. See Platyloeium scolopendrum. Pl.CXCI.Vol. III. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Platylobium foliis ovatis, glaberrimis, diftichis;floribus folitariis, axillaribus; ramis tere-tibus. Flat-Pea with egg-fhaped leaves, very fmoothand pointing oppofite ways; flowers growfolitary from the infertion of the leaves;branches cylinder-fhaped. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement of the Flower. 2. The Standard, or upper petal of the bloffom. 3. One of the Wings, or fide petals

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