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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette
Year: 1844 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening Agriculture
Publisher: (London : Published for the proprietors
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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CHKONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 265 largest; all are oblong, obtuse, hooded at the apex. Thethree petals or inner segments of the perianth are equalin size, ultimately exceeding the sepals, obovate, theirmargins fringed with long delicate hairs of a richpurple colour; (unfortunately these are inadvertentlyomitted in the engraving, where also the petals are shown with their margins flat and not involutetowards the apex as they are in nature, at leastat iirst, and rolled round towards the summit).Staminodia three, two lateral distinct linear purple,abouthalf aninch in length, densely clothed with fine the base ol the stamiual column, and consisting of adense tuft of orange fringe-like hairs. Staminal columnerect, consist ingbelow of aflat stalk about a riuartcrof aninch in length, and hearing at the top twoiurple, petal-like, convolute, horn-like processes, terminating in long purple fringe-like hairs, the posterior one adnato to , points, and having in the interior three spirally-
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twisted anthers—two vertical, attached by a slenderfilament near the inner edge of the petal-like process,the third stretching horizontally beneath the two othersits stalk bent downwards; at the back of the columnat the point corresnonding to the horizontal anther, iaan oval or somewhat circular disc, whose margin isencircled with a few short irregular processes. Theovary is ovate-oblong, whitish, a quarter of an inch in length, three-celled (one cell posterior, two anterior),terminating in a long, curved, cylindrical style; stigmaminute, obscurely three-lobed. The arrangement of the floral organs above describedis so peculiar, that it is no wonder very different viewshave been expressed concerning it. These we shalltake another (opportunity of alluding to. At presentwe need only add, that to the manifold attractions of this singular plant is added a slight but decidedly agree-able perfume. We understand that the plantjhas been in bloom sinceSeptember last, and shows every indicatio

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