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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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eaved. Seed-coatsmany, one-feeded.See Malva reflexa, PI. CXXXV. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Malva foliis lobatis, plicatis, dentatis, fcabridis;ramis ramulilque divaricatis, flexuolis. Mallow with lobed leaves, plaited, toothed, andrough; the large and fmall branches growftraddling, and zig-zagged. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The double Cup. 2. A Flower fpread open, with the threads remaining. 3. The Chives cut open, and magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summits, magnified. As a lively, but little, green-houfe plant, this lpecies of Mallow has not many equals; and its pro-perty of continuing to flower from June, till December, mull confiderably enhance its value. It is anative of the Cape of Good Hope, and was introduced to us, about four years fince. Molt collectionsnow poffefs it, from its facility of increafe, may be planted in rich earth, and is increafed by cuttings,or feeds, which ripen perfeftly in this country. The drawing was made at the Nurfery, Hammer-fmith. &>c
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,/flllll,,l/il ■ PLATE CLXXXIII. GARDENIA TUBIFLORA. Tube-flowered Gardenia. CLASS V. ORDER I. PENTJNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Five Chives. One Poiatal. GENERIC CCalyx. Perianthium monophvllum, quinque- fidum, fuperum, lacmiis eredlis, perfillen- tibus.Corolla monopetala, infundibulifcrmis; tubus cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus planus, quinquepartitus.Stamina. Filamenta nulla. Anthers quinque, ore tubi infertae, lineares, ftriatae, longitu- dine dimidia limbi.Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- mis lea clavatus. Stigma exfertum, ova- tum, obtufura, bilobum, fsepe fulcntum.Pericakpium. Bacca ficca, uni bis feu-quadri- locularis.Semina plurima, depreffa, per feries imbricatim fibi impofita. SPECIFIC Gardenia inermis; foliis elipticis, undulatis, rlo-ribus ternis; corollae laciniis tortis, lineari-bus, reflexis, tubo filiformi, longiflimo. HARACTER. Empalement. Cup one leaf, rive-cleft, above,fegments upright, permanent. Blossom one petal, funnel-fhaped; tube cylin-drical, longer than

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