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ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 63.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

CONVOLVULACEAE, Jussieu.

DUPERREYA.

Calix quinquepartibus bracteis duabus minoribus suffultus, in fructu persistens grandefactus membranaceus, reticulato-nervosus, patens.
Corolla subinfundibuliformis plicato-quinqueloba, calyce vix amplior. Stamina 5, tubo corollae inserta, inclusa. Ovarium ellipticum unilocu lare ! Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma magnum crassum, trigono-subcordiforme. Capsula eliptica, non dehiscens, membranacea, monosperma. Semen fundo cavitatis affixum, sessile, ellipticum. Albumen tenue, mucilaginosum. Cotyledones corrugato-plicatae. Radicula inflexa, infernè spectans.
Fruticulus. Foliis alternis, angustis, sericeis ; floribus axillaribus solitariis peduncularis, subracemosis, caerulescentibus.

DUPERREYA SERICEA. Pl. 63.

In Nova–Hollandiae ôra occidentali (baie des Chiens Marins.).

A M. Louis Isidore Duperrey, officier de la marine royale ; témoignage d´attachements et de reconnaissance pour les plantes qu´il a bien voulu collecter pour moi la plupart de ses courses hydrographiques.

To Mr. Louis Isidore Duperrey, officer of the royal marine; in testimony of attachment and recognition for the plants that he collect for me in most of his hydrographic expeditions.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

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