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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
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/. A ripe feed. The Norfolk Ifland Hibifcus is a tender greenhoufe plant; was introduced to Britain, in the year1792, having been raifed from feeds communicated by Col. Paterfon, then ftationed on that Ifland.It attains the height of 12 feet, or more, becoming a fmall tree; may be increafed readily from cut-tings, and fhould be planted in a mixture of loam and fandy peat. Our figure is from a fpecimenreceived from the Right Hon. Lord Vifcount Courtenay, in whofe collection at Powderham, nearExeter, it flowered for the firft time in the year 1800; and where alfo the feeds ripeued. We have no doubt but this plant belongs to the Genus Lagunaea, of Schreber; but as he propofeshimfelf, and as L Heritier as juftly obferves, the fimplicity of the cup is not a fufficient ground, onwhich to found a new genus; fo we have rather given our prefent fubjeft, the name under which itis in general known, than adopt a title for it which is acknowledged by the author, as ratherunwarrantable. -_=: y>t
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Vt/-i.u//.i (J!rA-/.j ■•////■! J ki ^- PLATE CCLXXXVII. STYPHELIA PARVIFLORA. Small-flowered Styphelia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx imbricatus. Corolla tubulofa.Stamina fauci inferta. Drupa quinquelocularis.Sernina bina. Empalement tiled. Bloffom tubular.Chives inferted into the mouth of the bloffom.A five celled berry. Seeds by twos.See Styphelia triflora, Pl.LXXII. Vol.1. SPECIPIC CHARACTER. Styphelia foliis lanceolatis, oppofitis; floribuscapitatis terminalibus; corollis minutis,albis. Styphelia with lance-fhaped, oppofite leaves;flowers terminate the branches in heads;bloffom lmall and white. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Flower, natural fize. 3. The fame, magnified. 4. A Bloffom, cut open, with the Chives attached. 5. The Pointal, natural fize. 6. The fame, magnified. This Styphelia, as are all the known fpecies of the genus, is a native of New Holland, and wasamongft the fi

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