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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 21, APPROVED FOR THE BOTANICAL ATLAS OF THE EXPEDITION LA URANIE-LA PHYSICIENNE 1817-1820.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

PINONIA. (I).

Sori dorsales submarginales: indusium capsuliforme, bivalve; valvulâ exterior fornicatâ, affixâ; exteriore liberâ operculiformi.

PINONIA SPLENDENS. Pl. 21.
P. caudice arboreo, aureo.laguminoso; frondibus fasciculatis, tripinnatifidis; vel tripinnatipifidis, lineari lanceolatis, subacuminatis, basi subarticulatis; lacinnis oblongis, obtusis, apice crenulato-dentatis; rhachi venisque hirtis; stipite inferne lanato.

P. splendens, C. Gaudichaud. Ann.des. Sc. Nat. Décemb. 1824, pag. 507; idem, Gener. Pag. 96.

Cibotium chamissoi ! Kaulfuss. Enum. Fil. Pag. 230, f. 14.
Dicksonia. Smith. Ex R. Brown.

In insulis Sandwicensibus. (Wahou, alt. 300-350 hex.)

J´ai consacré cette plante à M.me Louis de Freycinet, comme un bien foible témoignage de ma respectueuse admiration.

I dedicate this plant to Madame de Louis de Freycinet as a good testimony of my Respectful admiration. (Rose Pinon de Freycinet). !!!

SANDWICH ISLANDS (WAHOU).

PAGES 369-370.

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