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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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with prickly ribs. A pairof glands are placed at the base of the partial footstalks.Flower-stalks clustered, terminal and axillary, short andsimple. Flowers of a rich unpolished red. Calyx bell-shaped, with two small bractes at its base; its marginslightly 2-lobed, membranous, with 2 little teeth, one ofwhich is hooked. Keel of one petal, more than half aslong as the standard. IVings very small, slightly 3-lobed. Stamens truly diadelphous. Stigma small, simple, orslightly capitate. Germen downy. The fruit we havenot seen. The monopetalous keel, the perfectly diadelphous sta- mens, and the form of the stigma, do not properly belong to this genus, yet the habit is such that it would be rashon those characters alone to form a new one. In someother species the calyx is no less anomalous. In its native country, Brazil, it is said to be a lofty tree.When grown here in our stoves, it has been seldom seenabove 6 feet high. Introduced by Mr. Francis Bearsley in1771, Flowers Spring and Summer.
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314 LACHENALIA pallida, a.Pale-hlue-Jlowered Lachenulia, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.Nat, ord, Asphodeli. Jussieu gen, 51. Div. III. Lachenalia pallida. Vide suprh foL 287. We have thought it useful to add a figure of the proto-type variety of this species, to that we have ranked as itsvariety /S in the 287th article of this work ; where we referfor the synonymy and history of the plant. The presentvariety is by no means common in our collections. Weare obliged to Mr. Griffin, for the specimen from whichthe drawing was taken. It flowered this summer, in theconservatory at South Lambeth; and had been impoitedfrom the Cape of Good Hope* VOL.IV.

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