The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens with Their History and Mode of Treatment, Volumen 7

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Página 50 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Página 278 - By its black shelly seeds. 3. The seeds not bursting the capsule prematurely. 4. The oblique mouth of the tube abbreviated on the under side by the deeper incision of the perianth. 5. The fourfold instead of alternate diversity of the segments. 6. The fourfold instead of alternate insertion. 7. The fourfold instead of alternate length of the filaments. 8. The nectareous beard, or screen, in several species. 9. The germen sloped from the peduncle. 10.
Página 4 - ... it will be found that the original species of the Linnean genera, Melastoma and Rhexia, possess generic characters sufficiently distinguishing them from the greater part of the plants that have been since added to them by various authors. In consequence of these additions, however, their...
Página 4 - Melastomaceas in which the ovarium does not in some degree cohere with the tube of the calyx; Meriana, properly so called, being, perhaps, the only exception. And in the greater number of instances where, though the ovarium is coherent, the fruit is distinct, it becomes so from the laceration of the connecting processes already described.
Página 50 - Reflections by a French Officer. Translated from, the French by John Parish. Lond. 1775, 8vo. An Account of the Conquest of the Isle of France, or Mauritius and Bourbon ; with some Notices on the History, &c. of those Islands, 1812, 8vo. 2 vols.
Página 138 - Mans of Thunberg (not however Satyrium hians Linn, which seems to be a Disa), Cymbidium pedicellatum and aculeatum. These along with several Indian species also referred by Swartz and Willdenow to Limodorum, especially L. virens, carinatum, and perhaps epidendraides, form a genus (EuLOPHUs), related on the one hand to Dipodium (vide prodr.
Página 138 - Angrœcum of M. du Petit Thouars, which has also an elongated spur and a considerably different habit. Among the plants at present referred to, Limodorum, another very distinct genus may be noticed, consisting of Limodorum veratrifolium, and judging from Kaempfer's figure, L. striatum also. This genus (CALANTHE) agrees with Bletia in having eight pollen masses, but differs from it in the claw of the labellum being connected with the column. It is not unlikely that this may be the Cyanorkis of M....

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