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Botanical Engravings of A. Poiret

ENGRAVING NUMBER 103.

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Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

SIMARUBEAE, Decand., Kunth, Ad. Jussieu.

HARRISONIA, R. Brown, Ad. De Jussieu.

Calix parvus, quadrilobus, persistens; lobis abbreviato-ovatis, acutiustulis, subaequalibus, patentibus. Petala quator, hypogina, sessilia, ovato-oblonga, acuta, aequalia, patentissima, glabra, decidua. Praefloratio subvalvata. Stamina octo, hypogina, fundo prominenti discoïdeo, floris circumposita, petalis breviora, subaequalia. Filamenta libera, subulata, infernè valdè incrassato-dilatata, ibique internè, marginem versùs, villosa. Antherae oblongae, obtusae, basi bifidae ibique affixae, erecta, biloculares, glabra, aequales, internè, secundùm longitudinem dehicentes. Pollen: granula minutissima, subrotunda, libera, lutescentia. Ovarium superum, fundo prominenti discoïdeo floris insidens, subpyriforme, quadriloculare, quadrangulare, supernè quadrilobum, glabrum; ovulum I, in quolibet loculo, sublenticulare, axi affixum, pendulum, Stylus terminalis, erectus, tetragonus, quadrisulcatus, glaber, déciduus. Stigma capitellatum, obsoletè quadrilobum. Fructus depressosubglobosus, quadrilobus, quadrilocularis vel plerùmque abortu 1-3-locularis, apice loculicido-4-valvis, baccato-carnosus; loculis monospermis. Semen subrotundo-ovatum, infra apicem suspensum, exalbuminosum. Integumentum membranaceum. Cotyledones foliaceae, obliquè hippocrepico-curvatae, concavae, aequales. Radicula supera, subconica, obtusa.

Frutex. Folia alterna, ternata, epunctata. Foliolis obliquis basi dentatis. Aculei stipulares gemini ad petiolorum. Pedunculi axilares, solitarii, apice subdichotomi, multiflori, bracteati; flores pedicellati, flavescentes.

HARRISONIA BROWNIANA. Pl. 103.

H. brownii. Ad Juss. Simarub. Mém. Mus. Pag. 134, tab.28.

In insulis Moluccis (Timor).

Cette espèce a été consacrée, par M. Ad. De Jussieu, au célèbre auteur du Prodomus florae Nova-Hollandiae, M. R. Brown.

This species has been dedicated to Mr. Ad. de Jussieu, the famous author of the Prodomus flora Nova-Hollandia, M.R. Brown.

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