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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 07 [of 10]Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 07 [of 10]

Name: The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 07 [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

[Illustration:

                             _Vol. =VII=_

                               _of the_

                         Botanists Repository

                              _Comprising
                         Colour’d Engravings_

                                  of

                         _New and Rare Plants_

                                 ONLY

                   With Botanical Descriptions, &c.

                            ---- _in_ ----

                          _Latin and English,
                              after the_

                            Linnæan System,

                                  _by
                              H. Andrews_

                   _Botanical Painter Engraver &c._
                                   ]

PLATE CCCCXXXIII.

AGAVE AMERICANA.

_Great American Aloe._

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

_HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

     CALYX nullus. Corolla monopetala, sex-partita. Stamina sena,
     corolla longiora. Germen inferum. Stylus longior staminibus.
     Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis. Semina numerosa.

     EMPALEMENT none. Blossom one-petalled, six-parted. Chives six,
     longer than the blossom. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft longer than the
     chives. Capsule three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

     AGAVE, acaulis, foliis dentatis, spinosis: scapo e medio ramoso:
     floribus terminalibus in umbellis densissime capitatis: tubo
     corollæ læte viridi, e medio angustato: staminibus corolla
     longioribus: stylo staminibus longiore.

     AGAVE, without a stem; leaves toothed and thorny: flower-stem in
     the centre branched: the flowers terminate the branches in
     close-headed umbels: the tube of the blossom is greenish, and
     narrowed in the centre: the chives are longer than the flowers, and
     the style longer than the chives.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

    1. A plant in miniature.
    2. A flower natural size.
    3. The same spread open.
    4. Seed-bud cut transversely.
    5. The end of a leaf, the upper part scraped
         to show its thready fibres.

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