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On the Apocynaceæ of South America, with some preliminary remarks on the whole family; With thirty-five plates, to illustrate the structure of the genera - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Brasilia austr. prov. Rio Grande: v. fol. sice, in herb, meo, fluv. Jacuhy (Tweedie). The single loose leaf accompanying the specimens sent to me by Tweedie, quite agrees with the description above cited. It merely states that the leaves are broader, subrotund-elliptic, and that the flowers are paler; the leaf received is orbicularly ovate, rounded at the base, emarginate and broadly mucronate at the apex, entire margins subrevolute, chartaceous, very glabrous, reddish green above, sulcate along the midrib, with fine immersed diverging nerves and reticulated veins, ferruginously opake beneath, with subprominent midrib and prominulent nerves, 3J in. loug, 1f in. broad, on a slender rigid petiole 8 lines long. 11. Rhodocaltx Tweedianus, nob. In Brasilia austr.: v. s. in herb, meo, prov. Rio Grande ad fluv. Jacuhy (Tweedie). Two specimens of this species were sent to me in 1835 by Tweedie; both evidently indicate that the stems are simple, probably not more than 8 to 12 in. high; the stem is slender, pale brown, fistulose, very glabrous, f line thick, the nodes scarcely dilated, bearing 6 or 8 setiform stipules on each face; in the specimen with a perfect flower the terminal internode in its whole extent is 6 in. long; in the younger specimen, with the flower in bud, the terminal internode is 1 in., the intermediate internode 2f in., the lower one only f in. long; the opposite leaves are oblong-ovate, obtuse or emarginately cordate at the base, rounded and emarginate, or abruptly acuminate at the summit, submembranaceous, opake green above, with immersed very fine divergent nerves, yellowish opake beneath, the midrib, nerves, and fine transversely reticulated veins reddish and little prominulent, 2-2f in. long, 1-1 f in. broad, on slender...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230137920
- ISBN 13 9781230137926
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages150
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