Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

William Jack

Date:: [1820]

Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Leaves alternate, petiolate, obovaie* acuminate, nar¬ rowing to the base, serrated, pilose above, villous be- * • low. Peduncles axillary, solitary, elongated, bearing several dense fascicles of flowers all turned to one s\de9 depressed or bent at an angle to the peduncle, and spreading in a kind of half circle somewhat in the man¬ ner of the Lotus corniculatus. Flowers many, white 5 pedicels, articulate below the calyx, covered as well as the calyx with glandular hairs. Bracts linear, a- cute. Calyx 5-parted, segments linear. Corolla white, much longer than the calyx, infund ibuliform, wide at the faux, limb somewhat oblique, bilabiate, the low¬ er lip longer, three lobed, Stamina two, connected above by their anthers, whose lobes are transverse* Style as long as the stamina. Stigma capitate. Cap¬ sule silique shaped, two celled, ceils bipartite, (as if locular) two valved, generally bursting at one sideP many seeded. Seeds naked. The disposition of the flowers and fruit is peculiar, the capsules spreading horizontally like radii in a sort of semi-circle of which the peduncle is the axis, DIDYMOCARPUS FRUTESCENS. (W.J,) Caule suffrutescente erecto, folds oppositis longe pe» iiolatis ovatodanceolatis acuminatis supra glabris sub« lus canescentibus, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis db dynamise$

Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

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