Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 Ax\D OF THE PPIYSICAL SCIENCES. 51 BOTANY. BRUGMANSIA ZIPPELII. This singular plant is nearly allied to the Genus Patma, of which we have alreaJv illustrated two species in our former Numbers, Like them it is a parasite, and has hitherto been found only in the Island of Java. It was discovered on the mountain Salax, growing at the height of 1200 to 1500 feet above the level of the sea. This mountain lies in the province of Buitenzorg, on the west of Java, and it almost seems, from the singular
Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 Ax\D OF THE PPIYSICAL SCIENCES. 51 BOTANY. BRUGMANSIA ZIPPELII. This singular plant is nearly allied to the Genus Patma, of which we have alreaJv illustrated two species in our former Numbers, Like them it is a parasite, and has hitherto been found only in the Island of Java. It was discovered on the mountain Salax, growing at the height of 1200 to 1500 feet above the level of the sea. This mountain lies in the province of Buitenzorg, on the west of Java, and it almost seems, from the singularity of its vegetable productions, as well as the marked volcanic character of its minerals, to be the favorite shrine both of Flora and Vulcan. The Genus Brugmansia was constituted by Persoon; but Blume first included this Plant under that denomination. The characters which he aF5';;ned to the Genus Brugmansia are the following:—Perianth with one leaf; the crown of the throat interrupted; limb five-parted; segments or partitions twice or thrice cleft; tha estivation valvate induplicate; the central column, sub^lobo^r, above and naked; anthers monadelphous, two-celled, opening by two pores. This Plant, when it first bursts from the roots of its parent tree, exhibits merely a small tubercle or bud; as it gradually expands, it assumes the different appearances represented above, until finally it acquires the utmost extent of its growth, which is limited in these remarkable parasites to a simple development of their reproductive organs, or mere blowing of the flower. Just before its ultimate expansion it has the following appearance.
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