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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING NUMBER 75.

LOST ENGRAVING.

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Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

CYANEA.-Lobeliae. Sp.
Calix ovario adnatus, decemsulcatus; limbus foliaceus longior, quinquepartitus,; laciniis oblongis, ,argine reflexis et undulato-crispis. Corolla tubuloso-cylindracea, arcuata; limbo quinquepartito,; subbilabiato. Stamina quinque; tubus stamineus liber. Antherae connatae, barbatae. Capsula baccata, sulcato-decagona, indehiscens, bilocularis, calyce persistente coronata. Seemina creberrima.
Arbor lactescens; ramis ramulisque tuberculato-aculeatis. Folia alterna, extipulata, pinnatipartita, serrata. Racemi axilares; pedicellis basi unibracteatis. Flores cyanei.

Cyanea grimesiana. Pl. 75
C. ramosa; foliis magnis pinnatipartitis, glabriusculis; laciniis lanceolatis, grossè dentatis; petiolo , rhachi pedunculisque tuberculoso-aculeolatis; calycybus quinquepartitis; laciniis magmis, oblongis, margine undulato-crispis.

A M. Grimes, Pharmacien en chef et savant professeur de chimie de l´marine.

To Mr.Grimes, chief pharmacist and scientist, chemistry professor of the marine.

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