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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. Barh of the ligneous parts ash-coloured, withdark purplish specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled,from elliptic to lanceolate, smooth, entire; length fromthree to six inches. Stipules or rather connecting mem- branes, broad, ensiform. Flowers sessile, in terminalcorymbose heads, on short trichotomous branchlets, nu-merous, pure white. Bractes ensiform, villous, severalsurrounding each fascicle or head of flowers, as well asintermixed among them. Calyx above, 5-cleft, perma-nent; divisions subulate. Corolla 1-petalled, funnel-shaped. Tube slender, widening a little towards the mouth.Border of five spreading oblong divisions. Filaments 5, very short, inserted into the tube of the corolla a littlewithin its mouth. Anthers half-erect, linear. Germenbeneath, oval. Sti/le as long as the tube of the corolla;stigma 5-cleft. Capsule oblong, hairy, one-celled, five-valved, opening from the apex: seeds 5, one for each valve ^^ of the capsule, black, compressed, enclosed in a dcylatticed aril.
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349 CAMELLIA axillaris.PuloPinang Camellia. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Aurantia. Jussieu gen. 262. Div. III. Fructus poly-spermus capsularis. Folia non punctata. Genera Au*RANTiis et Meliis affinia.Theace^. Mirbel in Nouv. Bulletin. 3. 382. CAMELLIA. Supra vol. I. fol. 12. C. axillarisy arboreus; foliis oblongis, acutis, serrulatis; pedunculis axilla-ribus, solitariis, unifloris; calyce penta-hexaphyllo sericeo. RoxburghMSS. in Mus. Banks, conservatis; (ex anglicoJ. Caulis tereSy superne rarnosus, ramis junioribus virentibus. Fol. sparsa,patentissima, coriaceo-incrassatay oblonga, cuneato-lanceolata, integra velsuperne acute serrata, glaberrima, superne versus breviter aitenuata, it/femeversus in petiolum brevissimum crassum prolixius aitenuata, longiora octounci-alia V. ultra, ubi latiora diametro 2 unciarum cum dimidio alterius vel magis;noveliissima uti et squamae gemmarum suhtus subtilissime sericea. Cal.hexaphifllus, crassiusculus, subcartilagineus, j partes uncicB trajisv

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