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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 119. Restored.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

PELLIONIA.

Flores dioeci! Masc.:......................Fem, ; pedicellati, fasciculatocapitati, bracteâ parvâ instructi: Calix quinquepartitus; laciniis sub apice mucronato-aristatis. Stamina 5. sterilia, Squamiformia, incurva. Folia alterna, serrata, basi obliqua.

A M. J-Alphonse Pellion, officier de l´expédition, souvenir d´amitié.

To Mr. J-Alphonse Pellion, officer of the expedition, with friendship.

1. PELLIONIA ELATOSTEMOÏDES. Pl. 119.
P. caule simplici ; foliis inaequilatero-oblongis, acuminatis, venosis remotè et grosseè serratis, glabris.
Elastotema pellioniana. Olim.

In insulis Moluccis. (Pisang).

MOLUCAS ISLANDS.

2. PELLIONIA ? DIVARICATA.
P. caule ramoso ; foliis inaequilatero-ovatis, subacuminatis, 3-4-nervis, remotè serrulatis, glabris.
Elastotema divaricata. Olim.
In insulis Mariannis (Guam).

MARIANA ISLANDS.

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