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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ed,convolutely sheathing below, longer than the flower-stem,inner ones narrower, more upright, sharply channelled.Flower stem from a foot and a half to two feet high or more,round, very faintly and bluntly two-edged, glaucous, solid.Spot he two-valved, dry, acuminate, twice shorter than theumbel. Flowers 6-8, from 6 to 9 inches long, rose-colouredand white, sweet-scented: peduncles very short, nearly asthick as the germen. Tube of the corolla linear, obtusely3-cornered, sometimes curved, resembling a peduncle,smooth at the orifice: limb turbinately campanulate, slightlysemiringent, sixparted quite to the base, nearly twice shorterthan the tube, segments ov^Uy oblong, three outer ones thQbroadest, with a hooked point. Filaments crimson, inclined,about a third shorter than the limb: anthers balanced,when the pollen is evacuated curved like a crescent: pollensulphur-coloured. very slender, crimson: stigma de^ pressedly headed, slightly triangular, subpubescent, Caj)-*^i^le bulbispermous,
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304 CACTUS speciosus.Itose-Jlowered Indian-Fig. lOOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu s^en. 310. Div. II.CA CT US. Suprh vol. 2. foL 137. Div, Phyllanthi. C. speciosus, caulibus articulatis, compressis, foliaceis, serrato-repandis; floribus magnis tubo inermi, squamuloso. Bonpland nav. et malmais. 8. t. S; fiion vero Willdenovii in suppl. enum. hart. beroL^ cujus planta e&t Cactus speciosissimus. Mem, du museum, 3. 190. t, 9.)Cactus speciosus. Desfont,tahl, 191. Frutescens. Caulis articidatus, rajnosus, Icet^ vireseens, suhnudus, carno-suSf marginibus crenato-excisus, ex cylindraceo scepeque subangidari cumcrassitudine pennce scriptorice in laminam foliaceam oblongam latitudine sesqui-biunciali longitudine pliLS rninus sesunciali extenuatus, nervo medio alios joaraUlelos utrinque emittente percursus, imo crenarum sitiu armatus Jasciculisspinularum minidarum lanugine albicante cinctus vix oculis nudis manifestis.Flores in crenis caulinis solitnriiy quadriunciales, irifundi

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