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DRAWING NUMBER 69.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

SAXIFRAGAE! Jussieu.

BROUSSAISIA.

Calix hemisphaericus quinquefidus, glaber, cum pedicello continuus, crassiusculus ; laciniis deltoïdeo-ovatis, obtusiusculis, aequalibus. Corolla pentapetala glabra ; petala hypogina, basi lata, oblonga, crassiuscula, dorso subcarinata, aequalia, calycem duplò superantia, patentissima. Praefloratio valvata, apicibus petalorum, uncinato-inflexis. Stamina 10, hypogyna, glabra, quinque petalis opposita breviora ; in alabastro leviter curvata. Antherae ovatae, basi cordata ibique afixiae, apice bilobae, erecta, biloculares, glabrae, ad utrumque latus secunùm longitudinem dehiscentes, aequales. Ovarium sessile, depresso-globosum, liberum, apice in stylum brevem crassum desinens ; placentis 3-5, parietalibus centrum ovarii attingentibus in 3-5 divisum loculamenta. Ovula 1 vel 6 (constanter 6?) in quolibet loculo, oblongo-cylindracea, striata. Stigma convexum, sulcis 3-5 obsoletè lobum. Discus nullus. Fructus...........
Arbor mediocris, ramis medullà farctis, elongatis apicem versùs foliatis, fragilibus. Folia opposita, oblonga, petiolata, argutè dentata, venis primariis subparallelis ; petioli basi dilatati et articulati. Stipulae nulla. Corymbi terminales, ramosi, sessiles ; ramis subppositis ; pedicellis medio unibracteatis.

1. BROUSSAISIA ARGUTA. Pl. 69.

In insulis Sadwicensibus (alt.450-500 hex.).

Au célèbre Broussais, auteur et propagateur de la médecine physiologique, dont un des premiers j´ai goûté les bienfaits ; hommage de reconnaissance, pour les services qu´il a rendus à l´humanité.

To the famous Broussais, author and propagator of the physiological medicine and one of the first I tasted the kindness, homage of recognition, for the services that he hat gave to the humanity.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

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