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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
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elegant; whe-ther for the growth of the plant, the brilliancy of the foliage, or the extreme delicacy, fragrance,and beauty of the flowers. It is a native of China; from whence it was firtl introduced to us,in the year 1796, by T. Evans, Kfq. of Stepney; from a plant in whofe collection, our figure wastaken, this year, 1802, in the month of February, the general feafon of its flowering in this climateif kept in the hot-houfe; to which flalion it has, as yet, been doomed, although, from the generalcharacter of the Genus, we fliould be led to treat it more hardily. It is increafed by cuttings, andlayers; but the firft is the belt method, as, in the latter mode the branches do not take root under twoyears. The plant from which our drawing was made, did not exceed a foot and a half in height,which leads us to fuppofe it never becomes a large flirub, even in China. It thrives in leaf mould, andlight loam. We believe this plant has not hitherto come under the review of any botanical author.
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I/,/////1 //. irA/ PLATE CCXXX. DODONiEA TRIQUETRA. Tliree-jided Dodon&a. CLASS VIII. ORDER I. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eight Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calyx. Perianthium tetrapbyllum, planum; foliolis ovatis, obtufis, concavis, deciduis.Corolla nulla.Stamina. Filamenta ofto, breviflima. Anthera; oblongae, arcuatae, connivcntes, longitudine calycis.Pistillum. Germen triquetrum, longitudine calycis. Stylus cylinclricus, trifulcatus, erec- tus. Stigma fubtrifidum acutiulculum. Pbricakpium. Capfula trifuka, inflata, trilo- cularis; angulis membranaceis, magnis.Semina bina, fubrotunda. Empalement. Cup four-leaved, flat; leaflet*egg-fhaped, obtule, concave, falling off, Blossom, none. Chives. Eight threads, very fliort. Tipsoblong,curved, approaching, the length of thecup. Pointal. Seed-bud three-fided, the length ofthe cup. Shaft cylindrical, three-furrowed,upright. Summit nearly three-cleft ra-ther pointed. Seed-vessel. Capfule three-furrowed, fwelledout, three cells, angle

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