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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]

Name: The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 05 [of 10]
Author: Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

Plants -- Pictorial works; Plants, Cultivated -- Pictorial works; Rare plants -- Pictorial works

Amongst the numerous new plants introduced from China by the late Mr.
Slater, of Laytonstone, in the year 1793, this is certainly to be
considered as amongst the most beautiful. The only drawback to its
general merit, as a hot-house plant, is the great height to which it
might attain before it flowers; being in common fourteen or fifteen
feet. It propagates by offsets, and is kept with little trouble; as it
will flourish in almost any soil, and will flower, if set in any part of
the hot-house, so as not to interrupt its growth, the blossoms being
produced only from the summit. Although with us the stem is permanent,
as with some others of the same natural habit, yet it cannot, we think,
with propriety be considered as either a tree or shrub, but rather
herbaceous. Some contention, at first, arose whether this plant should
be referred to the present Genus; which was formed, by the younger
Linnæus, from a plant a native of Surinam, S. America, some of the parts
not exactly corresponding, especially the fruit; we have nevertheless
made no scruple in placing it to that Genus, with which, upon an
inspection of the dissections, it will be found very well to accord. Our
figure was taken from a plant which flowers, annually, in the month of
July, in the Collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore.

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INDEX

TO THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN VOL. V.


Plate
289  Protea cordata                        Heart-shape-leaved Protea                   G. H.  Shrub.  March.
290  Aponogeton distachyon                 Broad-leaved Aponogeton                     H. H.  Aquat.  AllSummer
291  Senecio pseudo-China                  China-root Groundsel                        H. H.  Herb.   July.
292  Geranium undulatum                    Waved-flowered Geranium                     G. H.  Herb.   June.
293  Lachnæa purpurea                      Purple-flowered Lachnæa                     G. H.  Shrub.  July.
294  Protea candicans                      Hoary-leaved Protea                         G. H.  Shrub.  August.
295  Passiflora aurantia                   Norfolk Island Passion-Flower               G. H.  Shrub.  July.
296  Lachenalia rosea                      Rose-coloured Lachenalia                    G. H.  Bulb.   May.
297  Nymphæa odorata                       Sweet-scented Water-Lily                    H. H.  Aquat.  AllSummer
298  Anthericum costatum                   Ribbed-leaved Anthericum                    G. H.  Bulb.   August.
299  Lachenalia reflexa                    Reflexed-flowered Lachenalia                G. H.  Bulb.   June.
300  Geranium oxalidifolium                Wood-Sorrel-leaved Geranium                 G. H.  Herb.   July.
301  Protea grandiflora. _Var. fol. und._  Large-flowered Protea. _Waved-leaved Var._  G. H.  Shrub.  May.
302  Lachenalia fragrans                   Sweet-scented Lachenalia                    G. H.  Bulb.   March.
303  Geranium barbatum                     Bearded-leaved Geranium                     G. H.

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