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ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 41, APPROVED FOR THE BOTANICAL ATLAS OF THE EXPEDITION LA URANIE-LA PHYSICIENNE 1817-1820.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

PADANEAE. R. Brown.

FREYCINETIA.

Flores dioeci. (?) Masculi:…………….
Feminei : Ovaria creberrima, spadicem undique et arctissimè obtegentia, libera, nuda (perianthio destituta), ad basim staminibus 1-8 minutis effetis (?) cincta, saepius quinquangulata, unilocularia. Stamina effeta (!) : antherae cordatae, biloculares, secundùm longitudinem dehiscentes. Stigma sessile, adnatum, disciforme, è lineolis 2-7 subannularibus (nonnisi versus centrum stigmatis interruptis), prominentibus corneis, placentarum paribus respondentibus efformatum, coronam dentis mollaris quodam modo referens.
Fructus baccati, molles (teste Brown), interdum per paria connati, uniloculares. Placentae parietales 4-14, per paria aproximatae, angustissimè lineares, pericarpio secundùm longitudinem adnatae. Semina creberrima, minuta, fusiformia, striata subarcuata, ad unum (exteriùs) latus strophiola longitudunali notata, rubro-colorata, podospermio (funiculo umbilicati) brevi stipitata, in pulpa mucosa subliquida natantia.
Perispermium carnosum ? hyalinum. Embryo minutissimus, in parte superiore perismii locatus, obovato-subturbinatus.

Caudex sublignosus, scandens et radicans, interdum arboreus. Folia imbricata, angusta infernè vaginantia et amplexicaulia, margine dorsoque spinulosa ; floralia bracteiformia, colorata. Spadices (feminei) terminales, oblongo-cylindracei vel ovati.

J´ai consacré ce genre à l´honorable chef de notre expédition, M. Louis de Freycinet, comme un foible témoignage de mon respectueux attachement.

I have dedicated this genus to the honourable chief of our expedition M. Louis de Freycinet, as a deep testimony of my respectful and gratitude.

1. FREYCINETIA ARBOREA. Pl. 41.

F. caudice arboreo; foliis elongates, linearibus, supernè angustato-subulatis, coriaceis; spadicibus femineis, cylindraceis; stigmata 6-7-lobo.

In insulis Sandwicensibus (Alt 450-500 hex.).

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

PAGES 431-432.

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