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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 66.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

VERBENACEAE! Jussieu.

QUOYA.

Calix subturbinatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore trilobo, inferiore bifido. Corolla turbinato-campanulata, limbo quinquelobo, bilabiato, lobis quator acutiusculis (duobus lateralibus minoribus), infimo maximo subrotundo concavo. Stamina quator corollae mediun versùs inserta, exserta, didynama. Antherae biloculares; loculis collateralibus aequalibus basi calcaratis; calcaribus apice connatis. Ovarium obovatum, emarginatum, quadriloculare, loculis monospermis, placentâ centrali demùm bipartibili. Ovula oblongo-teretia, infrà medium affixa. Stylus terminalis, filiformis, exsertus. Stigma incrassatum, apice bilobum.

Fructus…………………………….

Suffrutex tomentosa pilis stellulatis v. ramosis ; ramulis teretibus.
Folia oposita, sessilia, obovato-cuneata, crenata, rugulosa. Umbellae axilares, pedunculatae, simplices, pauciflorae, bracteatae. Flores pedicellati, caerulescentes.

1. QUOYA CUNEATA. Pl. 66.

In Novae-Hollandiae orâ occidentali (baie des Chiens Marins).

A mon ami M. le docteur Quoy, chirurgien major, et l´un des zoologistes de l´expedition.

To my friend Dr. Quoy, surgeon, and one of the zoologists of the expedition.

NEW HOLLAND (BAIE DES CHIENS MARINS).

PAGE 453-454.

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