Identifier: populargreenhous00catl (find matches)
Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nd sometimes capable of being separated into five pieces ;its limb five-parted, the edges of the segments being thinnerthan the middle, and folded inwards in bud. Stamens five, dis-tinct. Ovary one or two-celled. Style one, simple, very rarelydivided. Leaves scattered, often lobed.—Herbaceous plants,rarely shrubs; natives principally of Australia. LESCHENAULTIA. Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Calyx in five linear, sub-ulate lobes; corolla formed of a long tube, with the limb rathertwo-lipped, and the lobes serrated. New Holland plants, introduced into the greenhouse,as they are ornamental; L. formosa is a handsome plantwith numerous narrow leaves, and flowers of a scarlet hue;ollata, orange; glauca, reddish-yellow; liloba, blue; lari-cina> violet; and there are besides, arcuata, Baxterii, andsplendens. L. arcuata, from the Swan River, is a curiousplant with innumerable branchlets, almost every one of whichis terminated by a large yellowish flower mixed with red : Plate Jtf. .
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O.Tewitblitb Vincent Brooks irrq Lesdienaultia arcuata. GOODENIACEzE. 241 the tube is short, the limb two-lipped, segments five, threeof which are spreading, large, and of a sulphur-yellow, twoare smaller, closing over the stamens and are reddish-purple;the leaves are very small and narrow. It is an interestinggreenhouse plant. SO3EV0LA. Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Corolla nionopetalous,with the tube divided lengthwise; limb five-cleft, and lateral;drupe inferior, one-seeded ; nectary two-celled. The word means the left hand, as the flowers look as ifthey were defective of half the corolla. The stove speciesof this genus are natives of the East and West Indies;those adapted to the greenhouse are from New Holland, ascrassifolia, cuneiformis, microcarpa, suaveolens (the sweet-scented), hispida, callipterd, multijiora, etc., with blue orlilac flowers. EUTHALES. Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Calyx tubular, five-cleft,equal; corolla split at the end, with a two-lipped limb ; an

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