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Botanical Drawings of A. Poiret

DRAWING 62 A, REVERSO.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

ALIXIA, R. Brown.

Gynopogon, Forster, Labillardiere.

1. ALIXIA LAURINA, Pl. 62.

A. Pedunculis terminalibus, subternis, 1-3-floris ; foliis ternis, oblongis, acuminatis, acumine rotundato-emarginato, subcoriaceis, fructibus moniliformi-birticulatis, articulis ellipticis.

Rumph. Amb. 5, tab. 20.

In insulis Moluccis (Rawak)

MOLUCAS ISLANDS (RAWAK).

2. A. ALIXIA OLIVAEFORMIS.

A. Pedunculis axillaribus solitariis, 2-4-floris; foliis ternis, elliptico-oblongis, utrinque acutis, membranaceis; fructibus olivaeformibus.

In insulis Sandwicensibus.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

3. ALIXIA TORRESIANA.

A. Pedunculis axilaribus, solitariis, bifloris, petiolum superantibus; foliis ternis, ellipticis, obtusis, subemarginatis, basi in petiolum decurrentibus; fructibus elliptic-subrotundis.

In insulis Mariannis.

MARIANNA ISLANDS.

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