. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. s somewhat resemblingRhubarb on a gigantic scale. He measured a leaf which was nearly 8 feet in diavuhr,and remarked that each plant produced 4 or 5 of these enormouslcaves, presentingtogether a noble appearance. The fruit of Gunnera macrocephala is reputed in Javato be stimulant. Panax, Linn. Aureliana, Catesb. Araliastrum, Vaill. Plectronia, , , , Ruiz et Pav. Wangenheimia, Dietr. Ginnania, Dietr. GENERA Gastonia, ,
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. s somewhat resemblingRhubarb on a gigantic scale. He measured a leaf which was nearly 8 feet in diavuhr,and remarked that each plant produced 4 or 5 of these enormouslcaves, presentingtogether a noble appearance. The fruit of Gunnera macrocephala is reputed in Javato be stimulant. Panax, Linn. Aureliana, Catesb. Araliastrum, Vaill. Plectronia, , , , Ruiz et Pav. Wangenheimia, Dietr. Ginnania, Dietr. GENERA Gastonia, , , , , , Linn. Scheffera, , , P. Br Actinophyllum, , Linn. Gynapteina, , DC, Heptnpleurum, , , Miquelia, Meisn. Touroulia, Auhl. liohinsonia, , L. Milligania, Hook. , L. Misandra, Comm. Disomcnc, Banks. Perpensum, Bunn. Panhe, Feuill. Numbers. Gen. 21. Sp. 160. —Apiaceae.—Araliace^.— Fig. DXVII Fig. DXVII.—Adoxa Mcschatellina. 1. a flower magnified. 782 CORNACE^. [Epigynous Exogens. Order CCXCVIII. CORNACEtE—Cornels. Caprifoliacese, § Cornea, Kiinth Nov. G. Amer. 3. 430.—Cornea, DC. Prodr. 4. 271. (1830); Endl. Gen. clxv.; Meisner, p. 143. Diagnosis.—Unibellal Exogetis, with a 2- or more-celled fruit without a clouUe epigynousdisJc, tetramerous flowers, a valvate corolla, and ojn^osite leaves icithout stipules. Trees or slirubs, seldom herbs. Leaves (except in one species) opposite, entire ortoothed, mth pinnate veins. Stipules 0. Flowers capitate, umbellate, or corymbose, naked or ^^dth an involucre, occasionally byabortion J ? • Sepals 4, superior. Petals 4,oblong, broad at the base, inserted into thetop of the calyx, regular, valvate in sestiva-tion. Stamens 4, inserted along with thepetals and alternate with them ; anthersovate-oblon
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