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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING TEST NUMBER 96, APPROVED FOR THE BOTANICAL ATLAS OF THE EXPEDITION LA URANIE-LA PHYSICIENNE 1817-1820.

Artist: A Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

RUBIACEAE, Jussieu.

HEDYIOTIS, L.

MIRMECODIA.-Mirmecodia et Hydnophitum, Jack.
Calix: margo obsoletus, integer, ovarium coronans. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis; limbo quadrifido, regulari, fauce pilosâ. Stamina 4. Fauci corollae inserta; antheris exsertis. Stylus I. Stigma bipartitum; laciniis integris vel apice 3-4-lobis. Bacca ovato-elliptica, 2-5-sperma.
Plantae parasiticae, basi tuberosae, glabrae. Caules suffruticosi, quadrangulares, simplices. Folia opposita. Flores axilares, Gemini-quaterni, pedunculati, albidi.

Mirmecodia echinata. Pl 96.

M. foliis longè petiolatis, acuminatis; stipulis axillaribus, bifidis, ciliato-echinatis, persistentibus; fructibus 3-5-spermis.
M. (I) tuberosa. Jack, Trans. Linn. XIV, pag. 123 (1825).
Nidus germinans formicarum ruber. Rumph. Amb. VI pag. 119, tab. 55, f. 2.

In insulis Moluccis (Rawak), in rupibus.

1. Mirmecordia. Calix subinteger. Corolla quadrifida, tubo intùs ad insertionem staminum piloso. Stamina quatuor, corollá breviora. Stylus staminibus longior. Stigma simplex. Bacca ovata, quadrilocularis, tetrasperma. Parasitica basi tuberosa, flores basibus, petiolorum semitecti. Jack, L. c.

2. Hydnophytum. Calix integer. Corolla limbo 4-fido, fauce pilosâ. Stamina 4, brevia, fauci inserta. Stigma bifidum. Bacca disperma. Super arbores parasitica, basi tuberosa, floribus axillaribus. Jack. L. c.

MOLUCAS ISLANDS.

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