Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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tomentose underneath, entire orfrom two to seven-lobed, nerved: petiole twice shorter thanthe blade. Peduncles axillary, solitaiy, pubescent, shorterthan the leaf, about threeflowered; pedicles furnished withtwo opposite glands and two very small oval caducous bractesat the base. Calyx palish green, villous, oblongly oval,about two thirds of an inch long; segments oval, obtuse,nearly equal, converging closely round the lower part of thetube of the corolla. Corolla finely pubescent at the outside,hypocrateriform; tube nearly two inches long, cylindrical,but little enlarged at the upper part, nearly twice longerthan the Innh, w^hich in the present specimen was wnnkled,much in the way of the petals of some of the Cisti. Stamensand style not protruding beyond the tube: stigi:ia capitate,slightly hWoho^d: Jilaments slightly furred with purple villi.Seeds covered wnth a silky fur. We are obliged to Mr. Herbert and to the descrip-tion by Mons. Desfontaines, for what we have said of theplant.
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34^5 GESNERIA bulbosa,Hulbous Gesneria, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord, Campanulace^. Jussieu gen. 163. Div. I. Anthera dis-tinctae. Gesnerejs. Richard apiid Kunth nov. ^en. et spec. 2. 345.GESNERIA. Suprafol. S29. G. bulbosaf tota pubescens; foliis oppositis, ovato-ellipticis, basi cordatis,serrato-crenatis; panicula numerosa, subopposita, patente, distante;pedunculis corymbosis brevioribus pedicelHs; limbi inaequalissimi labiosummo porrecto oblongo maximo, imo brevissimo revoluto.Herbacea, rhizomate ^erennj bulbi ad instar rotutidato, tunica fusc& membranaced, Caulis simplexf erectus, subflexuosus, teres, bipedalis, distanterJbliosus. Folia carnosula^ subtus densius tomentosa, decrescentia, majorasubSuncialia latitudine triunciali; petiolus crassus, brevis, Pedunculi coryrrf-boso-multiflorifoliolis diminutis senshn superne bracteaceis subtensi, pedicelliujiiflori bracteola subulatd herbaced solitarid ad basin. Foliola calycis brevia,subulatay herbacea, subbreviora Jundo extern

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