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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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om New Holland; where, Forfter fays he found it, as wchave given it, with the chives and pointals difiindt; but, that the fame fpecies was hermaphrodite,when growing in New Zealand, which may perhaps be the. fact, though we lliould fufpect, fromfuch circumftance, they -were different fpecies. Martyn in his Ed. of Millers Diet mentions thisplant, and throws it to the broad-leaved fpecies found in the tropical climates of America and Alia.Willdenow, in his Sp. Plant. Tom. 11. P. 1. p. 345, has made it a fpecies, without any obiervation onits parts of fructification: which leads us to fuppofe, he had not feen flowering fpecimens. It is ashardy as any greenhoufe plant we poffefs, but will not refift the leverity of our frolts; is eafily propa-gated by cuttings, and thrives in almoft any earth. It is fo very common in New Holland, that,fcarce a parcel of feeds has arrived from thence, but has contained fome of the feeds. The two figureswere taken from two plants at the nurfery Hammerfmith.
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_ OOEf^ PLATE CCXXXI. CERBEIIA AHOUAI. Oval-lcaved Cerbera. CLASS V. ORDER I.PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Contorta. Drupa monofperma. Corolla in- « Floweks contorted. Pulpy feed-veflel, one-fundibuliformis. feeded. Bloftin funnel-fhaped. See Plate 130, Ceil era undulata, Jul. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cerbera foliis ovatis, acutis, laciniis corolloe un- II Cerbera with egg-fhaped, pointed leaves; feg-dulatis; calycis foliolis reflexis. ments of the blollbm waved; leaflets ot the cup reflexed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Bloffom cut open, the Chives in their place. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit; with the fummit detached, magnified. The oval-leaved Cerbera is a native of the continent of South America, in Brazil and the other pro-vinces within the tropics; therefore, mull be treated as a tender hothoufe plant. It is increafed bycuttings, delights moft in a rich foil, and flowers in July, or Augult. It is faid to acqu

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