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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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the fame, with the Tips fhewn at their ends. 3. Pointal and Seed-bud. This Protea, from the Cape of Good Hope, merits the attention of thole who whh. to beautify theircollections, with dillinguifhed objects; as, it flowers the third year from the fetd, and is equally hand-fome with Protea mellifera. The cone for two months before it opens is extremely beautiful, and it is in flower nearly one more; and this, at a time when the plant has, fcarcely, attained a foot inheight. It is not inclined to branch till it has flowered, but from the lower part of the cone thebranches begin to extend. The leaves from their hairinefs have a whitifh appearance, are finelyedged with a light pink, and are flightly waved. It is propagated by cuttings, thould be planted inlight fandy loam, and flowers in September. Our drawing was made from a plant in the Hibbertiancollection; to which it was introduced by Mr. Niven, in the year 1 799> amongft the firft feeds whichwere fent, by him, from the Cape. ; W;
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/////</<■//(/ — = —A PLATE CCLXXI. A S C L E P I A S G I G A N T E A Gigantic Swallow-wort, or Auricula tree. CLASS V.PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. GENERIC Calyx. Perianthium quinquefidum, acutum,parvum, perfiltens. Corolla. Monopetala, plana vel reflexa,quin-quepartita, laciniis ovato-aeuminatis, levi-ter cum folc flexis. Nectaria quinque, tubo filamentorum infraantheras adnata, carnofa feu cucullata, efundocomiculum aculum inlrorfumflexumrxferentia. Stamina. Filamenti quinque, in tubum, badventricofum, connata. Antherje oblongoe,ereftae, biloculares, membrana inflexa, fiig-mati incumbents terminatae, utrinque alareverfa deorfum latcfcente. Tollen con-natus in corpufcula decern, obverfe-lan-ceolata, plana, in loculis antheras depen-dentia e filis brevibus, faepe flexuofis;quae per paria annexa funt tuberculis quin-que, cartilagineis,didy mis, angulis fligmatis,inter antheras, adhacrentibus. Tistilla. Germina duo, oblonga, acuminata.Styli duo, iubulati. Stigma utrifque com-mune, mag

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