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

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Native of Polo Timing* Stem generally simple, suffrutescent, densely cover* ed with ferruginous appressed scales, or chaffy hairs. Leaves opposite, long petioled, ovate lanceolate, acu* minate, attenuated to the base, slightly serrated, eight or ten inches long, smooth above, hoary and tomentose beneath, with appressed hairs. Petioles three inches long, furrowed above, thickened at the base, villous. Stipules none. Peduncles axillary, fascicled, 1—* flowered, shorter than the petioles, purplish. Bracts lanceolate acute. Calyx tomentose with glandu'ar hairs, tubular, 5.parted, laciniae linear, spreading a« bove. Corolla white, tomentose without like the calyx, much longer than it, infundibuliform, incurved ; all the laciniae subrotund obtuse. Stamina four, didyna- mou$, arcuate, approximate at their summits, each pair connected by their anthers. The filaments of the upper pair are thickened below their middle. Anthers white, adnate to the filaments, consisting of two lobes nearly parallel. Style of the length of the stamina. Stigma truncate. Capsule long, linear, silique shap¬ ed, two valved, two celled, cells two-parted by the septiform lobes of the dissepiments, which are revolute and seminiferous at their margins. Seeds numerous, naked.
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