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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 09 [of 10]Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828

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The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 09 [of 10]

Name: The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 09 [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. IX.
                                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._

                            Mo. Bot. Garden
                                 1904.
                                   ]

PLATE DLIII.

LOBELIA ASSURGENS.

_Assurgent Lobelia._

CLASS V. ORDER I.

_PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

     CALYX quinquefidus, Corolla monopetala, irregularis. Antheræ
     cohærentes. Capsula infera, 2-seu 3-locularis.

     EMPALEMENT five-cleft. Blossom of one petal, irregular. Anthers
     cohering. Seed-vessel below, with 2 or 3 partitions.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

     LOBELIA foliis lanceolatis serratis, infernè denticulatis
     decurrentibus, racemis compositis terminalibus.

     LOBELIA with leaves lance-shaped, serrate, toothed towards the
     base, and running down the stem; the racemes compound and terminal.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

    1. A blossom spread open.
    2. The chives spread open.
    3. The seed-bud and pointal.

       *       *       *       *       *

This curious species of Lobelia is a native of high mountains in
Jamaica, where Brown informs us it grows to the height of 5 or 6 feet.
The plant is at present so scarce as not to be enumerated in the
Catalogue of the Cambridge Garden; nor has any figure of it, to our
knowledge, been before published. Specimens were communicated by A. B.
Lambert, esq. from his stove at Boyton, where he informs us that the
plant is now about five feet high, with some of the lower leaves a foot
and a half long; that it began to blossom in the middle of July, and
continued to the end of November; four or five racemes flowering at the
same time, and nodding in the manner of ostrich plumes; the blossoms
gradually opening in succession towards the top, and the racemes
continuing to lengthen until more than a foot long. The flowers have
withered without producing any seed. The plant appears to be perennial.

[Illustration: [Plate 553]]

PLATE DLIV.

VOLKAMERIA ANGUSTIFOLIA.

_Narrow-leaved Volkameria._

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

_DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA._ Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

     CALYX quinquefidus: Corollæ laciniis secundis. Drupa 2-locularis.
     Semina 4, seu abortu tantum 2.

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