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 . i rnu*. PLATE CCXVIII. EMBOTHRIUM Embothrium. CLASS IV. ORDER MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GE
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 . i rnu*. PLATE CCXVIII. EMBOTHRIUM Embothrium. CLASS IV. ORDER MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. Corolla tetrapetala. Stamina limbo polyfpermus. Semina alata. Blossom four-petals. Chives inferted into thelimbs. One-celled pod, many feeded. Embothrium sericeum, PI. C. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Embothrium foliis ellipticis, integerrimis, mar-gine revolutis, pubefcentibus; umbellisterminalibus; folliculo villofo. Embothrium with elliptical, entire le3ves, at the edge, and downy; umbels ter-minal ; feed-pod hairv. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A Flower, magnified, the petals yet attached to each The fame, the petals difengaged. 3. The Pointal, magnified. 4. A Seed-veflel, natural fize. 5. A ripe Seed, natural fize. This we believe is amongft the molt rare of the plants, hitherto introduced, from New Holland. Ithas been figured in the third Number of New Holland Botany, publif
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