Descriptions Of Three Hundred New Species Of South American Plants

Author : H. H. Rusby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332869490
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Descriptions of Three Hundred New Species of South American Plants written by H. H. Rusby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Descriptions of Three Hundred New Species of South American Plants: With an Index to Previously Published South American Can Species by the Same Author Staminate Plant - Glabrous, the branchlets slender, finely sulcate, the internodes about 5 cm. Long. Petioles about 15 mm. Long, slender, slightly broader toward the summit, narrowly channelled. Blades 5 to 7 cm. Long, to 4 cm. Broad, ovate, the base from truncate to very shallowly and broadly cordate, . Acuminate and attenuate at the summit, very thin, 5 to 7 nerved, the venation very finely reticulate. Racemes numer ous, 7 to 10 cm. Long, very slender, short-peduncled, bearing the flowers mostly 2 together on a slender peduncle about as long as the pedicels or a little shorter and subtended by a scari ous lanceolate bract, nearly as long as itself. Pedicels about mm. Long, slender, the flower nearly 3 mm. Broad, the peri gone lobes nearly twice the length of the tube, lance-ovate, obtuse. Stamens 6, distinct except at the very base, the slender filaments as long as the perigone-tube, the anther-cells con tiguous. Staminodia none. Pistillate Plant - Racemes 15 to 20 cm. Long, slender, loosely flowered, slenderly peduncled. Flowers sessile or the short pedicels adnate to the rachis, the bractlets ovate, scarious, about mm. Long. Ovary 5 mm. Long, linear, pubescent, the perigone 2 mm. Broad, the tube crateriform, ribbed, the lobes lanceolate, obtuse. Defective stamens 6. Three styles united, except at the summit, Where they are 2-lobed. Fruit 18 mm. Long, IO mm. Broad, elliptical, light-brown, glabrous, tipped by the persistent perigone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.