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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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benstreitia with linear leaves entire, roundilh, blunt, smooth; flowers grow crowed together in long bunches, of a gold colour. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A flower. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom cut open with the chives remaining attached, magnified. 4. The Pointal natural lize. 5. The same, magnified. The Hebenstreitias may all be reckoned as rather biennial plants than perennial flirubs; they must be increased every year to keep up a succession, which is a matter of no difficulty; as, if cuttings of any of the species are put into separate small pots, and kept from the air by a hand-glass, for about a month, they will become flowering plants by September, if the cuttings are made in May. Our present plant was introduced in 1796 by Messrs. Lee and Kenned)-, Hammersmith, at whole nursery the drawing was made this year in the month of March. They mostly flower in spring, and autumn; the flowers are very fragrant at night. They are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. C-/ ( - 2S-J K
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J(( /•/■>/// t/<r t-<r PLATE CCLIII. TALINUM PATENS. Panicled Purjlane. CLASS XI. ORDER I. DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Twelve Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium diphyllum, parvum, superum, apice compreisum, persistens. Corolla. Petala quinque, plana, erecta, obtusa, calyce majora. Stamina. Filamenta multa, capillaria, corolla dimidio breviore. Antherae simplices. Pistillum. Germcn subrotundum. Stylus simplex, brevis. Stigmata quinque, oblonga, longitudine styli. Pekicarpium. Capsula tecta, ovata, trivalvis. Receptaculum liberum. Semina pluriraa, parva. Empalement. Cup two-leaved, small, above, compressed at the tip, remaining. Blossom. Five petals, flat, smooth, upright, blunt, larger than the empalement. Chives. Threads many, hair-like, shorter by half than the blossom. Tips Ample. Pointal. Germ roundish. Shaft simple, short. Summits five, oblong, the length of the shaft. Seed-vessel. Capsule covered, egg-shaped, three-valved. Recep

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