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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 104.

LOST ENGRAVING.

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Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

COMBRETACEAE, R. Brown.

LAGUNCULARIA, Gaert. Fil, Kunth.

SPHENOCARPUS, Rich., Conocarpus, Linn.

Calix ovario adnatus, limbo quinquelobo, regulari, persistente. Petala quinque, limbo calycino inserta ipsumque multò superantia. Stamina 10, ibidem duplici tuberculorum seriei inserta, quinque (petalis opposita) altiori. Ovarium inferum, uniloculare, medio bibracteatum ; bracteis oppositis, persistentibus. Ovula tria in summa concavitate per fila longa affixa, pendula. Stylus I. Stigma simplex. Fructus ligneocarnosus, monospermus? non deshicens. Semen exalbominosum. Intergumentum simplex ? Cotyledones foliacae, secundùm longitudinem sese mutuò spiraliter amplectentes. Radicula supera.
Frutices inermes. Folia sparsa, approximata, lanceolato-spathulata, intergerrima, carnoso-coriacea. Flores sessiles, sparsi, basi unibracteati, in ramulis per spicas dispositi, purpurei, rosei vel lutei.

1. Laguncularia purpurea. Pl. 104.
L. spicis elongatis ; rhachi tereti ; floribus purpureis ; lobis calycinis eglandulosis.
Rheed, Hort. Malb. 6, tab. 37.
Ou mieux-incolarum.

In insulis Mariannis (Guam).

MARIANA ISLANDS.

2. Laguncularia rosea. Pl. 105, f, 2.
L. spicis abbreviatis ; rhachi compressâ ; floribus roseis ; lobis calycinis trigrandulosis.

In insulis Philippinis (Manille) ; Perrottet comunicavit.

PHILIPPINES (MANILA).

3. Laguncularia lutea. Pl. 105, f. I.
L. spicis abbreviatis ; rhachi compressâ ; floribus luteis ; lobis calycinis uniglandulosis.

In insulis Moluchuccis. (Timor).

MOLUCAS ISLANDS.(TIMOR).

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