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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 31.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

MELANTHACEAE, R. Brown.

ASTELIA, R. Brown.

1. ASTELIA PUMILA.

Malanthium pumilum. Forst. In Comm. Goet. 9, pag. 30, f. 6; Willd.
Sp. Pf. 3, pag. 270; Persoon, Syn. Pl. I, pag. 397.
Funkia pumila. Wild. Soc. Bot. &c.

In insulis Maclovianis.

2. ASTELIA VERATROÏDES. Pl. 31.

A. foliis radicalibus strictis, latè linearibus, supernè angustatis, utrinque lanuginoso-sericeis, caulem scapiformem adscendentem tristachyum superantibus ; spicis alternis, oblongo-cylindraceis, densifloris ; calycibus sex-partitis ; fructibus trilocularibus.

In insulis Sandwicensibus. (Alt.450-500 hex.).

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

PAGE 420.

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