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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    ( $ ) petals, erect, scarce1)' so long as the corolla. Ardt&erZ two celled, acute, cordate at the base. Style erect, e- qual to the stamina. Stigma obtuse. Ovarium long, li¬ near, inferior. Capsule oblong, obtusely three angled, three celled, three valved, many seeded, the disse¬ piments opposite to the valves. Seeds attached to a central columnar three sided placenta. Gbs.—Tin's plant differs considerably in habit from tlie other species of Sonerila in having an erect slen¬ der brachiate stem, and small lanceolate leaves, not oblique at the base as in most of the genus. The uppermost leaves are quatern, forming a kind cf involucre to the slender peduncle which springs from their centre* SONERILA MOLUCCANA* (Ro^b J Subcaulescens, villosa, foliis oblique cordstis inte< gns oppositis altero minore, peduncnlis axillaribus, ra- cemis unilateralibus. Roa'b : FI: Lid : Vol i. p, 122. Potih. Malay. A native of the moist shady forests of Pulo Pinang. A small herbaceous plant whose root is fibrous, and whose stem does not exceed a few Inches in length. Every part is thickly covered with red hair. The Leaves are pctiolate, opposite, one much smaller and