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ENGRAVING NUMBER 77.

LOST ENGRAVING AND DRAWING.

NO IMAGE AVAILABLE OF A. POIRET.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

DELISSEA.- Lobeliae. Sp.

Calix ovario arctè adnatus; limbus liber, quinquedentabile, persistens. Corolla tubulosa arcuata decidus ; tubo cylindraceo indiviso ; limbo quinquepartito, subbilabiato. Stamina quinque ; filamenta in rubum liberum connata ; antherae cohaerentes, 2 inferiores barbate.Stigma bilobum, pilis cinctum. Capsula baccata, calyce persistente coronata, bilocularis, non dehiscens. Semina creberrima. Caulis fruticosus, lactescens. Folia sparsa, extipulata, integra. Flores racemosi, axilares, (albido rosei) , pedicellis basi unibracteatis.

A M. Delisse, pharmacien à I´lle-de-France, naturaliste de l´expédition Françoise aux terres australes, de 1800 à 1804.

To Mr. Delisse, pharmacist at I'lle-de-France, French naturalist of the expedition to the southern lands, from 1800 to 1804.

Delissea subcordata. Pl. 77.

D. Ramosa; foliis ovatis, argutè dentatis, glabris; calycibus quinquedentatis.
Lobelia subcordata. Olim.

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