Botanical Engravings of A. PoiretBack to Gallery

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 11.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

POLYSTICHUM.

Polystichum benoitianum. Pl. 11.
P. frondibus fasciculatis, ovato lanceolatis, pinnatis; pinnis ovato-lanceolatis, subfalcatis, obtuse acuminatis, pinatifidis, subtùs in venis hirtis; terminali lanceolatâ, longisimâ, profundè, pinnatifidâ, subacuminata, (vel superioribus confluentibus.); laciniis oblongis, falcatis, obtusis, ciliatis; stipite quadrangulato, squamoso squamisque hirtis; soris solitaris, marginalibus; inclusiis lucidis, hirtis.

(Aspidium benoitianum, Gaudichaud, miss.).

In insulis Moluccis (Rawak.).

Je consacre cette espèce à mon ami M. Benoit, pharmacien de Paris, en témoignage de reconnaissance pour les savantes leçons que j´ai reçues de lui.

I dedicate this species to my friend M. Benoit, pharmacist in Paris, in testimony of recognition for the lessons that I received from him.

MOLUCAS ISLAND (RAWAK).

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