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

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    SONERILA ERECTAo Triandria Monogynia„ Erects, ramosa, foliis lanceolatis serratis, racemis terminalibus paucifloris, floribus sessilibus. Sum mow. Malaya Native of the Forests of Pulo Finang. Root fibrous. Stem erect, from six inches to a foot j in height, oppositely branched, round, tinged with red, fringed with two opposite longitudinal lines of hairs (like that of the Veronica Chamoedrys). Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate*lanceolate, acute at both ends, serrated, villous with erect hairs, three nerved, green above, reddish beneatbo Petioles nearly smootho Stipules none® Peduncles terminal, springing from the centre of a four leaved verticil which terminates the branch, and of which two opposite leaves are smaller. The spike is unilateral, about four flowered, recurved, smooth; each flower sessile on the upper side of the clavate peduncle, which is there thicken¬ ed and as it v^ere scooped out to receive it, and is attenuated downwards to the point of insertion into the branch. Bracts none or very minute. Calyx smooth, trifid, laciniae acute. Corolla of a light flesh color, composed of three lanceolate-ovate acuminate spreading petals® Stamina three, alternating with the