Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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or distinct sharp point; petiolesilkily furred. Flowers yellow, oblong, about an inch anda quarter long^ longer than the leaves parallelly paired:peduncles short, very thick. Calyx pale green, mem-branous, villous, twice shorter than the vexillum, tubu-larly oblong, slightly swollen, slightly compressed, veryshallowly bilabiate; lips straight contracted, upper one ob-tUse notched, lower one ovate tapered tridenticulate. Fe.r-ilium with a hardish cuneate folded unguis, of the length ofthe round lamina, which last is bent back at the sides andwaved at the upper part of the margin: wings not muchshorter than this, oblong, obtuse, pressed closely to thesides of the keel, wrinkled at the edge: keel greenish, ob-longly falcate, as much shorter than the wings as these areshorter than the vexillum. Filaments monadelphous: an-thers deep yellow, oblong. Germen linear, compressed,silkily furred: style but little shorter than this, subulate,nearly smooth: stigfna a blunt slightly pubescent point.
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309 JUSTICIA eustachiana.St. Eustatia Justicia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNL4. Nat. ord. Acanthi. ,Tuss(eu gen. 102. Div. II,AcANTHACE^ii. Broxvn prod. 472. JUSTICIA. Cal. acqualis, 5-partitus. Vor. valde irregularis, bila-bi.ita, V. ringens, labio inferiore diviso. Anth. 2-loc., lociilis insertionesaepius inccqualibns. Fil. sterilia nulla v. obsoleta. Germinis lociili 2-spermi.Dissepimenturn adnatum. Sem. retinaculis subtensa. Hcrbce v. frutices:caulescenies, iriflorescentia varia. Brown 1. c. 475. Div. Cal^ce simplici, corollis hilahiatis: lahih divisis.J. euslachiana^ truticosa, corollis bilabiatis divisis, toliis oblon^is acuminati«, spicis axillaribus terminalibusque, bracteis verticillis remotis lanceolatis, antheris Solander in Sched. Banks, ad exemplariiim spontaneum in Herb. Banks, descript.Justicia eustacbiana. Vahl. symb. 2. 15. Ejusd. enum. 1. 144. Jacq.amer, 4. t. 4. Willd. sp. pi. I. 93. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 139. Frutex ramosus ^-^-pedalis, subti/iter subvil/osns saturate virescens;

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