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ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 84, APPROVED FOR THE BOTANICAL ATLAS OF THE EXPEDITION LA URANIE-LA PHYSICIENNE 1817-1820.

The engraving also appears as: Mowia Plantaginea SANDWICH ISLANDS, (MOWI ISLAND).

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

Involucrum campanulatum, suboctophyllum ; foliolis liberis, margine sibi mutuò incumbentibus. Flores 8-10, tubulosi, hermaphroditi. Filamenta linearia, apice vix incrassata. Stigmata dilatata, acuta, ciliata. Fructus obovato-turbinati, glabri. Pappus plumosus.
Suffrutex ramis apice foliolis, infernè nudis, cicatrisato-annulatis.
Folia opposite, sessilia, basi subconnata, acuminate, dentate, rigida, parallelè venosa, glabra. Paniculae terminales, foliatae ; ramis alternis.
Flores fasciculati, luteo-rosei.

DUBAUTIA PLANTAGINEA. Pl. 84.

In insulis Sandwicensibus (Alt. 550-600 hex.).

A feu M. E. Dubaut, officier de la marine royale, à l´obligeance duquel je dus un grand nombre de plantes curieuses.

To Mr. J.E.Dubaut, officer of the royal marine to the kindness of which I owed a big number of curious plants.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

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