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. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . c. Leaves radical,from one to three, linearly ensiform, long-tapered towardsthe point, slightly plaited or striate, during the flowering ofthe plant upright and about two or three inches high, butgrowing to the length of eight or ten inches during thefruiting of the same, enclosed at the lower part by aroot-sheath. Flowers sessile, few, scentless, standing uponthe root. Spathes few, pale, membranous, surrounding thebase of the corolla. Tube of the corolla looking like a pe-duncle or stalk to the flower, very long, filiform, triangula
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . c. Leaves radical,from one to three, linearly ensiform, long-tapered towardsthe point, slightly plaited or striate, during the flowering ofthe plant upright and about two or three inches high, butgrowing to the length of eight or ten inches during thefruiting of the same, enclosed at the lower part by aroot-sheath. Flowers sessile, few, scentless, standing uponthe root. Spathes few, pale, membranous, surrounding thebase of the corolla. Tube of the corolla looking like a pe-duncle or stalk to the flower, very long, filiform, triangular,straight: Ibnh deep yellow, sixparted, flatly stellate; seg-ments lanceolate, long-pointed or acuminate, streakletted, 3alternate ones partly green at the back, 3 entirely so. Fila-ments deep yellow, very short, upright, subulate. Antherspale yellow, large, obtuse, upright. Germen linear, trian-gular, compressed. Sti/le grown to the inside of the tube,yellow, very short beyond the tube. Stigma yellow, semi-trifid, lobes nearly upright, linear, pointed. \. 346 CITRUS Aurantium; Orange-tree, POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Nat. ord. Aurantia. Jussieu gen, 259. Div. II, Fructus polygper-mus baccatiis. Folia punctata. Aurantia US. Supra vol, , 211. C, Aurantium, petiolis alatis, foliia acuminatis, caule arboreo. Thunb, Citrus Aurantium. Lin, ed. 2. 2. 1100. WiUd, 9. 1427. Ilort, Kew, 3. 101. ed. 2. 4. 420.(a) Malus Aurantia major. Bank, pin. ^S6.(^) Malus Aurantia, cortice dulci eduli. Banh. pin. 436.(y) Citrus vulgaris myrtifolia fructu puniilo, medulla acri et amar^. Risso in ann. du mnseum, 20. aurantium indicum caule et fructu pumilo, myrtifolium. Gales, cifr. n° 22. 134. Citrus sinensis. (Frutex parvus foliis myrti.) Persoon syn. 2. 74; (vix tamen synonymoruni prcBler forsan Milleri).Aurantium myrteis foliis-Sinense. Ferr. hesp. 430. t. 433. In the Syno}?sis Plantarum of Persoon^ we find our plantseparated f
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